Code Quote by Tony Hoare

“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

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

— Peter Seibel

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to…

— Rob Pike

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

— Bjarke Ingels