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Niklaus Wirth Quotes

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

Niklaus Wirth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: swiss
Birth: February 15, 1934

Topics

Work Quality Simple Perfection

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

Joan Baez

People Me Doing Say Never Realist

The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience.

Maya Hawke

Truth Experience Parents Me Truth Is

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Lisa Murkowski

Production Own Fail Our Boost

I am not strong on perfection.

Jasper Johns

Art Perfection I Am Strong Am

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

Looking Flying Down Enemy Up Coast

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Anthony Bourdain

Rest Die Career Brooklyn Nothing

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis

Me Boredom Beyond Dying Without Get

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

Paz Vega

Diet Hollywood Drink Eat West Spain

I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Age Children War Think Physics Been

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Timothy Murphy

Technology Medical Person Tell Used

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

Marsha Blackburn

Place Enemy Realize Single Cells

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

Graham Norton

I Am People Bad Interviewing Really