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

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • South
  • Backbone

• 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
  • Crying

• 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

• Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Want
  • Play
  • Hard

• I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • School
  • Rain
  • Circumstances

• I think it was our best performance of the season.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Performance
  • Season

• 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