Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) Quotes
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.Niklaus Wirth
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
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 -
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 -
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson -
There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
Gary Bettman -
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
Walter Koenig
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Baz Luhrmann -
I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
Gabe Paul -
The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.
Samuel Barnett -
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
Bill Gates -
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
Bill Gates -
Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.
Kathryn Erskine -
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
Seth Godin -
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.
H. Rider Haggard -
When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.
Damon Dash
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek -
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.
Eric A. Havelock -
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
Niklaus Wirth