Brain Quote by Niklaus Wirth Download Open image “C++ is an insult to the human brain” — Niklaus Wirth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Human brain Humans Insult
C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively. — Tom Christiansen Copy Share Image
C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft]… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
