Simplicity is a necessary precondition for reliability.
“Simplicity is a necessary precondition for reliability.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A PC on every desk and in every home.”
“Computer programming is like doing crossword puzzles, and being paid for it.”
“Projects promoting programming in ‘natural language’ are intrinsically doomed to fail.”
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
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