“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 Primary source“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
— Tony Hoare Secondary source“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intentions of its user.”
— 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 sourceSimplicity Computer Programming Reliability Robustness Null