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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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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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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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Swimming – what real men do while boys play football. – Author Unknown

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Seventy-five percent of our planet is water – can you swim? – Author Unknown

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Swimming

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. – Author Unknown

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Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all — gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit. – Ali ibn-Hazm

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My family and I built my whole career from scratch. – Maria Sharapova

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