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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

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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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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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. – Alva Myrdal

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Learning

When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking did I want to come back in?, I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point. – Colin Cooper

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Learning

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. – Bill Rancic

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Learning

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. – Flora Lewis

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Learning

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. Thats the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We dont talk about football or anything like that. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

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I never use notes, they interfere with me. – Ken Blanchard

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The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, a little by the head of Maradona. – Diego Maradona, 1986

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