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●: „Quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.“; Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (354 - 430), Confessiones, XI, 14
●: „Je näher man ein Wort ansieht, desto ferner sieht es zurück.“; Karl Kraus, Die Fackel 326/327/328 vom 8. Juli 1911 (1911-07-08), Seite 44, unten
●: « Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. »; Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 14 Dec 1656
●: “A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’ .”; Willard Van Orman Quine
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„Warum ist überhaupt etwas? Warum ist nicht Nichts?“

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling : Einleitung in die Philosophie der Offenbarung, Vorlesung gehalten ab 1841-11-15

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„ und wenn sie auch

Die Absicht hat, den Freunden wohlzuthun,

So fühlt man Absicht und man ist verstimmt.“

Goethe : Torquato Tasso, zweiter Aufzug, erster Auftritt

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„Halb zog sie ihn, halb sank er hin“

Goethe : Der Fischer (Ballade)

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“Ich weiche der Gewalt.”

Friedrich Schiller

Elektra in „Probe einer metrischen Uebersetzung der Elektra“ (Euripides), Zweiter Akt, Erste Szene, Worte Elektras, aus: Thalia. 1785–1791. Dritter Band, 12. Heft, 1791, S. 1–29

Weitere Zitate

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„How can I say ‘I love you’ after hearing ‘CARS LOVE SHELL’?“

Jerry Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) in „Do It“, New York, 1970, Simon and Schuster.

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“We the unwilling,

led by the unknowing,

are doing the impossible

for the ungrateful.

We have done so much for so long with so little

We are now qualified to do anything with nothing ”

(Urheber unbekannt)

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“For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his owne petar ”

Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv.

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“Bessere Zeiten werden erst kommen, wenn man statt ‚Weekend‘ wieder ‚Schabbes‘ sagen wird und statt ,Girl‘ wieder ‚Chonte‘.”

Karl Kraus, 1930, in der Fackel, Ausgabe 838-844, auf Seite 40.

Dieser Text wird von Kraus als »Berliner Theaterwitz« bezeichnet, was so verstanden werden kann, daß Kraus diesen Text berichtet, aber nicht erfunden hat.

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« Le forme di cortesia illustrano la dignità di chi le usa, più che quella di coloro cui sono rivolte. »

Francesco Sabatini

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“When you make a great beer, you don't have to make a great fuss.”

Heinecken (1980–1989)

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“das nicht mehr so gut wie früher verwaltet wird”

Peter Stein, 1980, Die Orestie des Aischylos.

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“Jungfräulichkeit, einmal berührt, ist dahin. Und flössen alle Wasser der Welt in einen Strom, um das Blut von den Händen des Mörders zu waschen – es wäre vergeblich.”

Peter Stein, 1980, Die Orestie des Aischylos.

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„Euer Ja sei ein Ja, euer Nein ein Nein; alles andere stammt vom Bösen.”

Mt. 5:33-37, EÜ

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan ”, 1892, Act III

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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan ”, 1892, Act III

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„Erinnerung und Mitleid gehören zu einer Freundschaft.” (« Et deux composantes de l'amitié sont le souvenir et le regret », «Ricordi e rimpianti: anche questi fanno parte dell'amicizia.», “Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship ”)

Captain Jean Luc Picard, Folge „Brieffreunde“ (“Pen Pals ”)

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“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied – chains us all, irrevocably.”

„Mit dem ersten Glied ist die Kette geschmiedet. Wenn die erste Rede zensiert, der erste Gedanke verboten, die erste Freiheit verweigert wird, dann sind wir alle unwiderruflich gefesselt.“

Aaron Satie

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“When cobwebs are plenty kisses are scarce.”, Notes and Queries, 1864

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„Es muß demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.“

Walter Ulbricht

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.

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“Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.” – Clark's Law. (Laut Wikipedia: J. Porter Clark (16 November 1994). "Clark's Law". Newsgroup: alt.news.misc. “They were apologetic and seemed sincere, but sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice. 8-)” )

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“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”

Oscar Wilde, “The Remarkable Rocket ”

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„Die Vernunft, als Funktion des Verstandes, befindet sich in der vorgestellten, fiktiven Welt. Sie strengt sich unendlich an und erfindet in einem Falle ein Alphabet, im anderen verschiedene Feilen und Sägen. Mit dem Alphabet glaubt sie, ihre ganzen Erkenntnisse festzuhalten, und damit die Wirklichkeit der vorgestellten Welt beweisen zu können, mit den Sägen will sie die Welt zersägen. Aber Gegenstandsloses läßt sich weder erklären noch zersägen.“

Kasimir Malewitsch, 1879-1935

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”

George Bernard Shaw

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« Il n'y a pas d'amour, il n'y a que des preuves d'amour. ».

Pierre Reverdyi (and/or Jean Cocteau )

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“be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

Jon Postel

Zitate zum Lernen

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„Ljewin wollte ihm deutlich machen, daß dabei eigentlich nichts zu verstehen wäre; das müsse einfach auswendig gelernt werden.“

Leo Tolstoi (in Anna Karenina, Übersetzung: Hermann Röhl)

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She is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without understanding will not remain with her.

Sir 6:20

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“Hätte ich geduldig fortgefahren, mich an solchen Gegenständen zu üben, ihnen Licht und Schatten und die Eigenheiten ihrer Oberfläche abzugewinnen, ich hätte mir eine gewisse Praxis bilden und zum Höheren den Weg bahnen können; so aber verfolgte mich der Fehler aller Dilettanten, mit dem Schwersten anzufangen, ja sogar das Unmögliche leisten zu wollen, und ich verwickelte mich bald in größere Unternehmungen, in denen ich stecken blieb, sowohl weil sie weit über meine technischen Fähigkeiten hinauslagen, als weil ich die liebevolle Aufmerksamkeit und den gelassenen Fleiß, durch den auch schon der Anfänger etwas leistet, nicht immer rein und wirksam erhalten konnte.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit, Dritter Teil, Dreizehntes Buch, Seite 564 in Goethe-HA Bd. 10; Goethes Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden. Textkritisch durchgesehen und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Erich Trunz, Hamburg: Christian Wegener, 1948 ff. [Seitenkonkordanz zu einer Mischauflage aus den Jahren 1959 und 1960.]

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“I’d like to drive a race car on the Indianapolis track. I’d like to kick a field goal in an NFL football game. I’d like to be able to hit a hundred-mile-an-hour baseball. But you have to know your place. There might be some things that are beyond your talents. Everything worth doing takes time. You have to write a hundred bad songs before you write one good one. And you have to sacrifice a lot of things that you might not be prepared for. Like it or not, you are in this alone and have to follow your own star.” Bob Dylan, 2016

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“This chapter presents fundamental types (§6.2.1) and declarations (§6.3).

Its examples just demonstrate language features; they are not intended to do anything useful.

More extensive and realistic examples are saved for later chapters.

This chapter simply provides the most basic elements from which C++ programs are constructed.

You must know these elements, plus the terminology and simple syntax that go with them, in order to complete a real project in C++ and especially to read code written by others.

However, a thorough understanding of every detail mentioned in this chapter is not a requirement for understanding the following chapters.

Consequently, you may prefer to skim through this chapter, observing the major concepts, and return later as the need for understanding more details arises.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

●: „Die Pädagogen sollen den Schülern nicht Wissen vermitteln, sondern sie dabei anleiten, sich selbständig Wissen anzueignen.“; Andreas Schleicher , Leiter der Bildungsabteilung der OECD

Zitate zum Erlernen von Programmiersprachen

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“Programming isn’t for everyone. It requires a very specific kind of quantitative, analytical thinking, and the learning process can be a tough one.”

— Christian Cawley, 2019-12-15

Zitate für ungeduldige Schüler

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“Please don't be too impatient for ‘realistic’ examples. … The fastest way to understand real-world code is through a good understanding of the fundamentals.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup, /ˈbjɑː nə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀ sdʁɔb̥/

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“I do understand that most people have to design systems somewhat more complex than maximum and minimum. But I urge them to consider the following: unless they can design a three line program well, why would they be able to design a three hundred thousand line program? We have to build our design skills by following through simple exercises, the way a pianist has to work through simple finger exercises before attempting to play a complicated piece.” – Alexander A. Stepanov

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“In their amazing book “The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking” the authors Burger and Starbird share a story about how they observed Tony Plog, an internationally acclaimed trumpet virtuoso, conduct a master class for accomplished trumpet players. The students first played complex music phrases, which they played perfectly well. But then they were asked to play very basic, simple notes. When they played the notes, the notes sounded childish compared to the previously played complex phrases. After they finished playing, the master teacher also played the same notes, but when he played them, they did not sound childish. The difference was stunning. Tony explained that mastering the performance of simple notes allows one to play complex pieces with greater control. The lesson was clear - to build true virtuosity one must focus on mastering simple, basic ideas.”

— Ruslan Spivak

Zitate zum Aufbau von Lehrtexten

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“A pure tutorial can in principle be read without prerequisites – it carefully describes all.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup, /ˈbjɑː nə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀ sdʁɔb̥/

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“A pure tutorial sorts its topics so that no concept is used before it has been introduced; it must be read linearly starting with page one ”

— Bjarne Stroustrup, /ˈbjɑː nə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀ sdʁɔb̥/

Zitate zur Methodik des Lernens

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“You can't learn to program without a programming language. ”

— Bjarne Stroustrup, /ˈbjɑː nə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀ sdʁɔb̥/

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“Yes, you need to read the text and do the exercises, but that’s not enough to become a Prolog programmer. To really master the language you need to sit down in front of a computer and play with Prolog — a lot! ” – Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz

Zitate zum Programmieren

“Programming is understanding.” – Kristen Nygaard

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, should learn a computer language, because it teaches you how to think.” – Steve Jobs, 1995

„51 000 unbesetzte Stellen für IT-Spezialisten bietet der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt laut einer Studie des ITK-Branchenverbands Bitkom. Das bedeutet einen Zuwachs von fast 20 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr.“ … „Die ITK-Branche sucht vor allem Software-Entwickler (60 Prozent der befragten Unternehmen), IT-Berater (21 Prozent) und Administratoren (21 Prozent).“, heise-Verlag, 2016-11-14

Isolieren und Ignorieren von Details

“But one of the things we have to learn how to do is ignore details. The key to understanding complicated things is to know what not to look at and what not compute and what not to think.” – Gerald Jay Sussman, Professor EE & CS M.I.T.

“To my taste the main characteristic of intelligent thinking is that one is willing and able to study in depth an aspect of one’s subject matter in isolation, for the sake of its own consistency, all the time knowing that one is occupying with only one of the aspects. ” – E.W. Dijkstra

Zitate zu Systemen und Zuständen

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„Ich gebe viele Interviews, und die Fragen sind immer die gleichen. Ich könnte also jedes Mal die gleichen Antworten geben. Aber ich glaube, daß ich auf jede Frage jedes Mal eine andere Antwort geben muß, denn jedes Mal hat sich etwas in mir oder in der Welt verändert.“

ITALO CALVINO, Rom, 1984

Zitate zum Softwarebau

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“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” —C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

Zitate zu Variablen

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“Once a person has understood the way variables are used in programming, he has understood the quintessence of programming.”

E. W. Dijkstra, Notes on Structured Programming

Zitate zu Rekursion

“I have always felt that the transformation from recursion to iteration is one of the most fundamental concepts of computer science.” - Donald E. Knuth

Zitate zur Nullreferenz

“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965 …. I couldn’t resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement.” – Tony Hoare, 2009

Zitate zu C++

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“it's worth noting that C++ does not generally provide conceptual level features, but merely the low level building blocks to create such features.”

— Alf P. Steinbach

Zitate zum Programmierstil

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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” Martin Fowler

Zitate zum Programmieren

“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.”

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, („C. A. R. Hoare“, „Tony Hoare“), 2009

Zitate zur Software-Projekten

„Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.“

Helmuth [Karl Bernhard] von Moltke, „Über Strategie“ (1871)

Zitate zu Kritik

“Gegen die Kritik kann man sich weder schützen noch wehren; man muß ihr zum Trutz handeln, und das läßt sie sich nach und nach gefallen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are so many people, and I can't please them all, so I might better please nobody.” – Bob Dylan (aus dem Gedächtnis Stefan Rams nach einem auf Papier abgedruckten Interview, keine Quelle auffindbar)

Weitere Zitate

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems"

Jamie Zawinski, on comp.lang.emacs

„The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model.“ (Widely attributed to Tanenbaum, but also to GraceHopper.)

“Every letter is a whole world.”

—Rabbi Dow Bär, der Maggid von Mesritsch

„From a child one should learn:

1) Always to be happy

2) Never to sit idle

3) To cry for everything one wants

From a thief one should learn:

1) To work at night

2) If one cannot gain what one wants in one night to try again the next night

3) To love one's co-workers just as thieves love each other

4) To be willing to risk one's life even for a little thing

5) Not to attach too much value to things, even though one has risked one's life for them, just as

a thief will resell a stolen article at a fraction of it's real value

6) To withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are

7) To believe that your work is worthwhile and not be willing to change it “

Rabbi Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezeritch zugeschrieben

“alljährlich zu Weihnachten eine Art privates System wechselseitiger Besteuerung zugunsten des Handels.”

– Niklas Luhmann in „Formen des Helfens im Wandel gesellschaftlicher Bedingungen“ (1973)