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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"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a factor that decides between success and failure"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"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"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape"
Desmond Morris, Scientist
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny'"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis what they need to know"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems"
Ken Thompson, Scientist
"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises"
Ken Thompson, Scientist
"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write"
Ken Thompson, Scientist
"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"Without a trace of irony, I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"There is no better high than discovery"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do"
John Carmack, Scientist
"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives"
W. Edwards Deming, Scientist
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
"Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
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