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Optimization hinders evolution.

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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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