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.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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I've always known the greatness of black people.
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I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.
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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
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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.
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My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.
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Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.
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The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
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I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
