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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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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. – Gary Player

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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. – Harvey Fierstein

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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