Edges Quote by Robert W. Floyd

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of…

— Robert W. Floyd

“I do not believe we will find the magic here. Program verification is a very powerful concept, and it will be very important for…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself.…

— Jim Horning

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

— Paul Dickson

“I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

— James Joyce

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

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