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• There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no…
• You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
• The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard…
• Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
• Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.
• At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost…
• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led…
• I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.
• The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
• I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be…

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