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- Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. — Niklaus Wirth
- A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth
- It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. — Niklaus Wirth
- My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers. — Niklaus Wirth
- The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. — Niklaus Wirth
- In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth