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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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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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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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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Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
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I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.
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I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.
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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
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My thoughts are to get the team into the wild card and to the post-season again and hopefully the World Series.
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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
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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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'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
