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Niklaus Wirth Quotes

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Niklaus Wirth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Management Engineering Tools Software

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Jim Harrison

Inevitable Never Something Influenced

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

John Bytheway

Sea Ocean Yourself Curious People

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

John Entwistle

I Am Writing Book Place Third Takes

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Father Mother Music City Small Born

I'm up at 6 A.M. and start my day with 20 minutes of meditation.

Stella Maxwell

Day Start Meditation Up Minutes

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time Doing Well Waste Waste Of Time

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Robert Byrd

Life Family Walls People Me Look

Hollywood's racist.

Rosie Perez

Hollywood

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

Michael Winter

Tea Kitchen Sex Write Head Would

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

Michael Phelps

Good Best Day Control Feel Good End

I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

Michael Leunig

Fear People Problem Finding Wonder

I would never say no to comedy.

Brie Larson

Comedy Say Never Would