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Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by… — Herbert Simon
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them… — Herbert Simon
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset,… — Richard Stallman
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and… — Gerald Jay Sussman
Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its… — Robert Tarjan
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything… — Stanislaw Ulam
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself. — Oscar Wilde
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh… — Niklaus Wirth
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with… — Randy Pausch
Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ... — Kent Beck
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are… — Kenny Smith
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding… — Carl Jung

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