"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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01 April 2014
08 March 2010
Formalisms
"We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
10 September 2009
The ability to simplify
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993
