Intelligent Quotes

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”

“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”

“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline? My answer to these questions is simple—it is the art of programming a computer.”

“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”