Construction Quote by Niklaus Wirth

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

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

— Douglas Crockford

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

— Bill Gates

“Refactoring is a lot like solving a Rubik’s cube. There are lots of little steps required to achieve a large goal. Each step enables…

— Robert C. Martin

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

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for…

— Fred Brooks

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

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the…

— George Dantzig

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

“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to…

— Arauna Morgan

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

— Steve McConnell