Produce Quote by John Ousterhout

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

— Alan Perlis

“The possibility of incorrect results in the presence of unlucky timing is so important in concurrent programming that it has a name: a race…

— Brian Goetz

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

— Paul Dickson

Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm,…

— Robert Tarjan

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

— Niklaus Wirth

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

— Tom Robbins

“As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision”

— Lotfi A. Zadeh

Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second…

— Rob Pike

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

— David Autor