# A Collection of Favorite Quotes


> *"I often use “we” in this book to mean you (the reader) and I. It’s a habit I got from my teaching days, as I saw writing as a shared learning experience for both the writer and the readers."*  
> — **Huyen Chip**

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> *"The light is brightest when it is dark."*  
> — **Đinh Anh Thi**

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> *"Remember that, you are a son before becoming a father."*  
> — **Đinh Anh Thi**

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> *"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."*  
> — **Donald Knuth**

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> *"I think, therefore I am."*  
> — **René Descartes**

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> *"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."*  
> — **Albert Einstein**

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> *"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."*  
> — **Albert Einstein**

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> *"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."*  
> — **Albert Einstein**

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> *"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."*  
> — **Lao Tzu**

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> *"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."*  
> — **Dr. Seuss**

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> *"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."*  
> — **Thomas A. Edison**

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> *"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."*  
> — **Mark Twain**

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> *"Believe you can and you're halfway there."*  
> — **Theodore Roosevelt**

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> *"Stay hungry, stay foolish."*  
> — **Steve Jobs**

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> *"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."*  
> — **Richard Feynman**

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> *"When you understand something, then you can find the math to express that understanding. The math doesn't provide the understanding."*  
> — **Leslie Lamport**

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> *"Imagination is more important than knowledge."*  
> — **Albert Einstein**

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> *"When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you start proving it."*  
> — **George Pólya**

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> *"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."*  
> — **Albert Einstein**

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> *"Nếu bạn có thể nói một vấn đề trong vòng một đoạn văn thì đừng nên dùng một trang A4 để giải thích cái vấn đề đó."*  
> — **Phạm Huy Hoàng**