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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."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"
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"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."
"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."
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"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."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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