Niklaus Wirth Quotes

February 15, 1934

Niklaus E. Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 Turing Award. He is best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.

In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Niklaus Wirth (1997) "A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth". Dr Carlo Pescio eds. June 1997.

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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Niklaus Wirth
— (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. 64-68. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
— Variation: Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.
— aka "Wirth's law"

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Go To statement considered harmful.

Niklaus Wirth
— Often attributed to Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, but it was the title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968). However The original title of "A Case against the GO TO Statement" (EWD215, PDF here, ACM has its own copy online) was changed by the editor Niklaus Wirth, to speed up publication. Dijkstra explains it himself in EWD1308 (see near the end of the article).

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Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

Niklaus Wirth
— Niklaus Wirth (1999) "A Digital Contrarian Retires". Beat Gerber eds., June 1999

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