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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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"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."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

"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."

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."

"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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