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in hive •  5 years ago 

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finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

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outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will
always have the last word.
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If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what
got you excited in the first place.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and
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The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On.
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We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget
about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be
idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these
symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for.
-- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

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The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper
you get at the end. The education you get depends on you.
-- Andreas Zwinkau

Heureux l'étudiant qui comme la Rivière peut suivre son cours sans
quitter son lit...
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
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All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
-- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more
likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break]
-- William S. Annis

Ils ne sont pas forts parce qu'ils sont forts. Ils sont forts parce que
nous sommes faibles.
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students
that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they
are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- E. W. Dijkstra

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are
rare, much rarer than you think...
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accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and
Hubris.
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In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
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Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once.
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Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring
tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all
Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts?
I’ll tell you how:
Ruby is a butterfly.
-- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

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company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more
observant.
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I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned.
-- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of
collection.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Photography is painting with light.
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