Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) Quotes
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
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The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers – by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
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scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
