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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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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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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Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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Who will dance on the floor in the round?
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One of the hardest things to do is to keep growing even when those around you don't want to. That's okay. Keep growing. The world needs you!
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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
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Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
