Computer programmers Quote by Niklaus Wirth Download Open image “Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.” — Niklaus Wirth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer programmers Faster Hardware Programming Programming funny Software Software engineering
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. — Niklaus Wirth 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
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software. — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.” — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
“The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more… — Jaron Lanier 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
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous,… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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