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

• Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

  

  John Ensign
  • Program
  • Corruption
  • Fraud

• I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Running
  • Taken
  • Sleep

• Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

  

  David Bowie
  • Art
  • Illusion
  • Sinner

• 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