Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.