- Quote #672
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent
philosopher.
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because... - Quote #673
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM,
but they thought the way to measure software was... - Quote #674
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... - Quote #675
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming,
because they don't know which end is up. --... - Quote #676
The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as
fast and much easier to understand.
-- D.... - Quote #677
To teach is to learn twice.
-- J.... - Quote #678
Formal methods will never have a significant impact until they can be used
by people that don't understand them.
-... - Quote #679
Programming is similar to a game of golf.
The point is not getting the ball in the hole but... - Quote #680
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the
author.
No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire... - Quote #681
In mathematics you don't understand things.
You just get used to them. -- J. von...
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