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The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.
— George W. Bush
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
— Niklaus Wirth
In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.
— Charlie Munger
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
— Niklaus Wirth
So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.
— Bram Stoker
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
— Niklaus Wirth
C++ is an insult to the human brain
— Niklaus Wirth
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
— Niklaus Wirth
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
— Niklaus Wirth
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.
— Niklaus Wirth
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
— Niklaus Wirth
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
— Niklaus Wirth
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
— Niklaus Wirth
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
— Niklaus Wirth
Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.
— Sharon Salzberg
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
— Niklaus Wirth
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
— Niklaus Wirth
One book: too much!
Many books: never enough. — Andrei Ludu
Many books: never enough. — Andrei Ludu
Go To statement considered harmful.
— Niklaus Wirth
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
— Niklaus Wirth
Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.
And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so. — Alice Walker
And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so. — Alice Walker
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
— Simon Wiesenthal