“In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction.”
Tony Hoare (verified)
Structured Programming (Primary source)
This book is a landmark collection of essays authored by Ole-Johan Dahl, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Tony Hoare. It brings together foundational ideas that reshaped the way software systems were understood, designed, and implemented.
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“In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from a recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world, and the decision to concentrate on these similarities, and to ignore for the time being the differences.”
Tony Hoare (verified)
“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)“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)