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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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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. – Edsger Dijkstra

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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. – David Suzuki

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Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didnt have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. – Michael Chertoff

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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. – William Irwin Thompson

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove

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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin

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Im really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I dont think about it as being a leader. – Bill Kreutzmann

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