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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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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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Chlorine is my perfume. – Author Unknown

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We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes. – Author Unknown

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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. – Russian Proverb

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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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