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Quotes by Swiss Authors
"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."
"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."
"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."
"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
"In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics."
"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."
"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
"I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do."
"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."
"The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics."
"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
"I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students."
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."
"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves."
"At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation."
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."
"We only understand that which already within us."
"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long."
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
"When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes."
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