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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"The square root of I is I."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
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