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
  • American
  • Reality
  • Process

• 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
  • Care
  • First
  • Debate

• L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Old
  • Grow

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Looking

• 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
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Character
  • Interesting

• 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
  • People
  • Art
  • Friendship

• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Watching
  • Flourish

• The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Lonely
  • Dirk Gently

• I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Crying
  • Ruin

• To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Lies
  • For Her

• 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
  • Soul
  • Way
  • Hearth

• Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Music
  • Calm
  • Stills

• It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Easy

• It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Knowing
  • Incredible

• There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.

  

  Nick Szabo
  • Law
  • Independent
  • Software

• Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Start
  • Perfection
  • Right Away

• A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Software
  • Complexity
  • Users