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Because I see bits of them in myself. An example: my sixth grade teacher math teacher frequently said that good mathematicians were lazy, that the simplest solution to a problem was often best, and that we didn't need to use overly complex techniques to solve problems. That's now at the core of my philosophy as a programmer.

How do you know you wouldn't have picked up the same trait from another source?

It's not as if that teacher is unique in advocating simplicity.

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