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.
Orson Welles
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Maajid Nawaz
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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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.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Rajneesh
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
Gary Bettman
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
Walter Koenig
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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.
Laura Riding
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Baz Luhrmann
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I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
Gabe Paul
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The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.
Samuel Barnett
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Plato
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Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Mitch Daniels
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
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I stayed in a dark corner of the house dreaming the story of the poverella's waterlogged, lifeless body, a silver anchovy to be preserved in salt. And whenever, later, I played at whipping the air to get it to whine, I thought of her, the woman in salt. I heard the voice of her drowning, as she slid through the water all night, as far as Capo Miseno. Now, just thinking about it, I felt like whipping the air of the pinewood harder and harder, like a child, to evoke the spirits, perhaps to chase them away, and the more energy I put into it, the sharper the whistle became. I burst into laughter, alone, seeing myself like that, a thirty-eight-year-old woman in serious trouble who suddenly returns to her childhood game. Yes, I said to myself, we do, we imagine, even as adults, a lot of silly things, out of joy or exhaustion. And I laughed, waving that long thin branch, and felt more and more like laughing.
Elena Ferrante
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God's presence is all that matters.
Francis Chan
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A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
Niklaus Wirth