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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Approaches Aware Clever Competent Full Fully He His Humility Like Limited Own Plague Programmer Size Skull Task Therefore Tricks

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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Century Competent Deserts End May New Next Ruins Seem Will

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I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: About Been Competent Difficult Had How Impressive Lot Men Met Military Remarkably Stories Strong Tell Them Versions Were Women Ryan

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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

~Felix Rohatyn

Topics: Been Colleges Competent Complement Essential Highway History Internet Investments Louisiana Private Public Purchase System Throughout

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Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

~Frank Pittman

Topics: Away Bears Changing Competent Corporations Diaper Dish Horror Men Otherwise Raid Sane Shrink Strong Strong Men Thought Washing Who Why Wrestle

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Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

~Frederick W. Taylor

Topics: Amount Competent Considerable Convince Devote Does Employer Found Going Good Hardly He His How Just Pace Slowly Still Studying Time Who Work Workman

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Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

~Fredric March

Topics: Agony Being Character Competent Featured Finding Head Illusion Just Keeping Last Lifetime Maintaining Merely Player Seat Star Stardom Stories Suitable Top Tricky Two Uneasy Year

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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

~Galileo Galilei

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