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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline? My answer to these questions is simple—it is the art of programming a computer.
Tony Hoare Computer Science · 1971

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“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline? My answer to these questions is simple—it is the art of programming a computer.”

Tony Hoare · Computer Science, 1971 · Primary source

“I realised that both verification and testing were using the same technology—assertions—on a common goal of improving software products in their speed of delivery, their quality, and their reliability.”

Tony Hoare · Theories of Programming: The Life & Works of Tony Hoare, 2021 · Primary source

“A PC on every desk and in every home.”

Bill Gates · Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates, 1993 · Primary source

“Computer programming is like doing crossword puzzles, and being paid for it.”

Tony Hoare · Computer Science, 1971 · Primary source

“Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors.”

Tony Hoare · Hints on Programming-Language Design, 1974 · Primary source

“In all branches of commerce and industry, history shows dramatic reduction in the error rates when their cost is brought back from the customer to the perpetrator.”

Tony Hoare · How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof?, 1996 · Primary source

“Many computer programs of the present day are of inordinate size—many thousands of pages of closely printed text. Mathematics has no tradition of dealing with expressions on this scale.”

Tony Hoare · The Mathematics of Programming, 1985 · Primary source

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2 authors · 6 works · 14 themes · 33 tags
Authors
Bill Gates American Entrepreneur and PhilanthropistTony Hoare British computer scientist
Works
Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates Bill Gates, David Allison (interviewer) · 1993Computer Science Tony Hoare · 1971Hints on Programming-Language Design Tony Hoare · 1974
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The nature of computer scienceProgramming as an artReconciling opposing methods
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ProgrammingVerificationComputer scienceAcademic discipline
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