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““deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual’s performance.”4 As hundreds of follow-up studies have since shown, deliberate practice provides the key to excellence in a diverse array of fields, among which are chess, medicine, auditing, computer programming, bridge, physics, sports, typing, juggling, dance, and music.””

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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

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At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

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I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

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