Excerpts of Citations
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Example isn't another way to teach. It is the only way to teach.
~Albert Einstein
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
~Albert Einstein
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from ...
~Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
~Brian W. Kernighan
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Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbo...
~James Lovelock
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Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to mak...
~Steven C. McConnell
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
~Pablo Picasso
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
~Tony Robbins
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
~Walt Whitman
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
~Sir Francis Bacon
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
~Karl Menninger
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
~Robert Anthony
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For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
~Dag Hammarskjold
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~Robert Heinlein
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
~Paul Johnson