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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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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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good
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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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Swimming
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Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways its better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. – Michael Crawford

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I dont believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. – Oprah Winfrey

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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. – Chen Shui-bian

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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. – Malcolm Mclaren

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For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one. – Adnan Mithani

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The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day. – Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810)

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch

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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. – Ethan Allen

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