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This note is devoted to three rules that must be followed if you want to be successful in scientific research. (If you manage to follow them, they will prove almost sufficient, but that is another story.) They are recorded for the benefit of those who would like to be successful in their scientific research, but fail to be so because, being unaware of these rules, they violate them. In order to avoid any misunderstanding I would like to stress, right from the start, that this note is purely pragmatic. No moral judgements are implied, and it is completely up to you to decide whether you wish to regard trying to be successful in scientific research as a noble goal in life or not. I even leave you the option of not making that decision at all.
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Dijkstra, E.W. (1982). The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research. In: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3_58
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