Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
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