Language Quotes by Niklaus Wirth

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft]…

— Niklaus Wirth

C++ is an insult to the human brain

— Niklaus Wirth

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were…

— Niklaus Wirth

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

— Niklaus Wirth

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

— Niklaus Wirth

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

— 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…

— Niklaus Wirth

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

— Niklaus Wirth

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small…

— 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

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could…

— Niklaus Wirth