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

• “Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it." "Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that.”

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Brother

• Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Leadership
  • Program
  • Formula

• Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Problem
  • Consciousness
  • Program

• If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • Justice
  • Effort

• 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