Army Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable…

— Matt Blaze

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

“This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces fit together.”

— Gene Kim

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

— Kevin Kelly

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

— T. S. Eliot

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on…

— Richard Hamming

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems

— Theo Foley

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity.…

— Leslie Lamport

At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any…

— Steve Clarke