Niklaus Wirth Quotes

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

I have very large ideas about the mineral wealth of the nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.

It's not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don't like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

I will say this: when you take any substance, especially in baseball, it's half mental and half physical. If you take this glass of water and you say, 'I'm going to be a better baseball player,' then you probably will be.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

If you can utilize a guy's talents and not let other parts of the game suffer, you've got a winning mix.

Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

The style is getting faster and faster. The athletes are getting better and better. The future is pretty bright for WWE.

Pressure makes me perform better.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.