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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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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Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
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The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
