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“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.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Work #Simple #Dedication
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Death #Thinking #Design
“Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Strong #Believe #Learning
“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Forever #World #Computer
“The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Army #Details #Degrees
“Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Perfection #People #Quality
“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Taught #Example #Programming
“During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Hands #Long #Problem
“Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Designer #Program #Interest
“The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Decision #Tree #Problem
“I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Time #Effort #Quality
“Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Names #Way #Call Me
“A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Want #Causes #Vendors
“My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Teacher #Duty #Educate
“My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Teacher #Teaching #Simple
“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.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#People #Style #Analogies
“It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Tests #Systematic #Solutions
“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.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Design #Development #Example
“But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Design #Program #Contemplation
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Faster #Software #Hardware
“Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Disaster #Certain #Software
“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Quality #Program #Should
“Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Mean #Goal #Hierarchy
“I have never designed a language for its own sake.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Sake #Language
“Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Steps #Construction #Program
“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.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Engineering #Woe #Tools
“Go To statement considered harmful.”
-- Niklaus Wirth
“Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Sight #Drawing #Design
“Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Faster #Programming #Software
“Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.”
-- Niklaus Wirth

#Sound #Aspect #Programming

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