Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) Quotes
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Get there first with the most.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
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As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
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My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.
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Dinner is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.
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It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
