Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) Quotes

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

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• It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Black
  • Painting

• I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • People
  • Shoes
  • Grateful

• Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

  

  Bette Midler
  • World

• I've always known the greatness of black people.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People
  • Black
  • Greatness

• I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Different
  • Years
  • Cry

• There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

  

  Umar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wisdom

• I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Poetry

• Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
  • Field
  • Babies
  • Kickers

• Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Home
  • Civilizations
  • Christian Club

• I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

  

  George Eastman
  • Children
  • Taken
  • Results

• There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • World
  • Failure
  • Everybody

• In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Program
  • Computing
  • Unchanged