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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. - Edsg

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. – Edsger Dijkstra

Other quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

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

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Failure
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Edsger Dijkstra
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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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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis

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Learning

If it doesnt feel like a job and Im learning something and getting that rush that I get, I dont care if its behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon. – Benjamin Walker

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Learning

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. – Kwame Nkrumah

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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because theyre both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. – Ani DiFranco

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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. – Richard Rosen

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