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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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Learning
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I enjoy learning technical details. – Ken Follett

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Learning

I feel like that Im learning all the time. Im learning from new artists, from established artists… every time I listen to 70s rock n roll records, Im learning. And I think that Im just now starting to get a hold on what I do. – Tim McGraw

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Learning

I feel like Im still learning a lot. I think theres a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking. – Anna Kendrick

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Learning

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. – William Arthur Ward

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Learning

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Ignorance is God’s prison. Knowing is God’s palace. – Rumi

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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artists hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Machines, Machinery

For now, Im just going to keep doing the work and hope I dont get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, Ill love it. – Ryan Gosling

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Hope