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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."
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Personal Development
"When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."
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Personal Development
"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""
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Personal Development
"Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious."
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Personal Development
"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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Personal Development
"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."
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Personal Development
"And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet."
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Personal Development
"Listen, child-if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect."
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
Life
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
Suspicion
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
Immortality
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Simplicity
"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
Education
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Hope
"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
Feelings
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
Change
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