"The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!"

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Source : "The First Computers: History and Architectures". Book by Ra L Rojas, p. 270, 2002.

Konrad Zuse

#Night Quotes #Zurich Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.”
“I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.”
“So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.”
“Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.”
“God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.”
“Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.”
“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”
“Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.”

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