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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides bet

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if thats what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Education
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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. – Edsger Dijkstra

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce

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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. – Cathy Rigby

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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard

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