Construction Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

— Kevin Kelly

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

— Douglas Crockford

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what…

— Donald Knuth

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

— Terry Winograd

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

We want to build systems that can generalize to a new task. Being able to do things with much less data and with much…

— Jeff Dean

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to…

— David Gelernter

We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion…

— Hal Abelson

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very…

— Guido van Rossum

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more…

— Fernando J. Corbato

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

“the move toward object-oriented programming, where applications could be fashioned out of small, predefined blocks of code, was a lot like building with LEGO.”

— David Robertson