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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

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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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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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good
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Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. Ill read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. Ive never found an easy way. – Paul Lynde

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I would live to study, and not study to live. – Francis Bacon

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Learning

Its not the teaching, its the learning. – Sly Stone

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Learning

The only animals Im not comfortable with are parrots, but Im learning as I go. Im getting better and better at em. I really am. – Steve Irwin

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