Niklaus Wirth Quotes

I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.

I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

I'm a personal type of person. I'll speak when I have something to say, not 'cause someone just wants to know something.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

If you want change, create the causes.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

Everything...affects everything

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

I want to remind everyone what we're fighting for and who we are fighting for.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.