Niklaus Wirth Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Niklaus Wirth quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”
“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.”
“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”
“Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.”
“The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.”
“Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.”
“The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.”
“Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.”
“My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.”
“It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.”
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