Billions Quote by Tony Hoare Download Open image “I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.” — Tony Hoare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billions Dollars Failure Invention Mistake Null
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
“Remember, null is intended to represent an object that isn’t there.” — Eric Freeman Copy Share Image
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.” — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” — Stephen M. Stigler Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
“Ten million dead. Gas. Passchendaele. Let that be now a large figure, now a chemical formula, now an historical account. But dear lord, not the Nameless Horror, the sudden prodigy sprung on a world unaware. We all saw it. There was no innovation, no special breach of nature, or suspension of familiar principles. If it came as any surprise to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to… — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image