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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”— Mark Twain
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“I wouldn’t have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.”— James H. Simons
Context:Award winning mathematician on what helps him succeed.
Source:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionair...
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“If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.”— Will Rogers
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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”— Bertrand Russell
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“When in doubt, use brute force.”— Ken Thompson
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“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”— Donald Knuth
Source:http://cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgramming...
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“The days are long, but the years are short.”— Gretchen Rubin