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Tony Hoare Quotes

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers Picture Quote #1

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity Picture Quote #1

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out Picture Quote #1

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends Picture Quote #1

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors Picture Quote #1

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. The first method is far more difficult Picture Quote #1

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The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay Picture Quote #1

I couldn’t resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the 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, their differences Picture Quote #1

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind Picture Quote #1

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A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers. (Tony Hoare Quotes) The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity (Tony Hoare Quotes) Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out (Tony Hoare Quotes) The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends (Tony Hoare Quotes) Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors (Tony Hoare Quotes) 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. The first method is far more difficult (Tony Hoare Quotes) The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay (Tony Hoare Quotes) I couldn’t resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years (Tony Hoare Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the 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, their differences (Tony Hoare Quotes) An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind (Tony Hoare Quotes)