“Many computer programs of the present day are of inordinate size—many thousands of pages of closely printed text. Mathematics has no tradition of dealing with expressions on this scale.”
Tony Hoare (verified)
The Mathematics of Programming (Primary source)
In his 1985 inaugural lecture at Oxford University, Tony Hoare advocates for a mathematical foundation for programming. He highlights how mathematical methods can improve software reliability, maintenance, and safety.
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“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.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“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.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“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.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“I may not be as strong as I think. But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Every day above earth is a good day.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)