“Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.”
Dijkstra (1978) The pragmatic engineer versus the scientific designer http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD690.html (EWD 690).
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