Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called life, expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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