“Most problems in real life are poorly understood, in that the real problem is often something different from what it is orginally thought to be.”
Tony Hoare (verified)
Computer Science (Primary source)
Tony Hoare’s 1971 inaugural lecture at Queen’s University Belfast where he aims to explain the nature and significance of computer science to a general audience by focusing on the central activity of the discipline: computer programming.
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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)“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)