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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/here-is-a-language-so-far-ahead-of-its-time-that-it-was-not-only-an/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

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## More by Tony Hoare

> [Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/programmers-are-always-surrounded-by-complexity-we-cannot-avoid-it-if/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/the-job-of-formal-methods-is-to-elucidate-the-assumptions-upon-which/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/a-single-human-brain-has-about-a-hundred-million-nerve-cells-and-a/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/i-don-t-know-what-the-language-of-the-year-2000-will-look-like-but-i/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/you-cannot-teach-beginners-top-down-programming-because-they-don-t/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/an-ultimate-joint-challenge-for-the-biological-and-the-computational/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/the-unavoidable-price-of-reliability-is-simplicity/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [ What is the central core of the subject \[computer science\]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/what-is-the-central-core-of-the-subject-computer-science-what-is-it/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/the-real-value-of-tests-is-not-that-they-detect-bugs-in-the-code-but/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/inside-every-large-program-is-a-small-program-struggling-to-get-out/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/here-is-a-language-so-far-ahead-of-its-time-that-it-was-not-only-an/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/i-call-it-my-billion-dollar-mistake-it-was-the-invention-of-the-null/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/it-is-easy-to-predict-that-some-of-the-discoveries-of-research/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/there-are-two-methods-in-software-design-one-is-to-make-the-program/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

> [Some problems are better evaded than solved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hoare/some-problems-are-better-evaded-than-solved/)

[Tony Hoare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hoare/)

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