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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interestin

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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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

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Swimming

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. – Bruce Lee

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Swimming

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Swimming

H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession. – Author Unknown

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