“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)“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,” she said. “It’s that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“Above all, I did not allow anything to be done which I did not myself understand. It worked!”
— 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 crude measure of the simplicity of an engineering tool is the length of the manual required to give a full and complete account of how to use it and avoid misusing it.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality and the most ascending quality.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
— Tony Hoare (verified, secondary source)“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
— Albert Einstein (unverified)“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)Software Design Art Computer Programming Reliability Engineering