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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.”
― William Cowper