Complexes Quote by Eric S. Raymond

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable…

— Matt Blaze

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to…

— Rob Pike

“Writing and repairing software generally takes far more time and is far more expensive than initially anticipated. “Every feature that is added and every…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

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

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

— Jeb Bush

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

— Grady Booch

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

— H. L. Mencken

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for…

— Joshua Lederberg

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

— Kevin Kelly