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Suggest Revision: The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
 
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Suggest Revision: The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
 
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Suggest Revision: The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
 
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Suggest Revision: The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
 
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Suggest Revision: There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
 
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Suggest Revision: Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
 
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Suggest Revision: About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead
 
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Suggest Revision: Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
 
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