“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“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 Primary source“In all branches of commerce and industry, history shows dramatic reduction in the error rates when their cost is brought back from the customer to the perpetrator.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.”
— Tony Hoare Primary sourceSoftware Design Simplicity Engineering Null Progress