Niklaus Wirth (Niklaus Emil Wirth) Quotes

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • You
  • Alien

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Energy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • More
  • Really

• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Time
  • Real
  • Moments

• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Year
  • Poker

• If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Country
  • Why
  • House

• The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?

  

  Rae Carson
  • Being
  • Awesome
  • Common

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Me
  • Nice

• Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Expect
  • Wellbeing

• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Night
  • Dark

• For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Taken
  • Years
  • Islamic

• I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Political
  • Without

• Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Deal
  • Land
  • Buying

• If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Paradise

• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Fear
  • Teacher

• I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Long
  • Mirror
  • Partner

• Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Space

• My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Teacher
  • Train
  • Programmers