Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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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
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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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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