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Niklaus Wirth Quotes

Swiss - Scientist | February 15, 1934 -

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.

Management Engineering Tools Software

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Test Solutions Necessary Some Manner

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.

Teacher Simple Influence Language

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Future Teacher Train Duty Educate

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Construction Goal New Programming

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Development Software Human Activity

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.

Work Beautiful Satisfaction Become

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

Results Worse Deliver Discover Later

Yet, 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.

Time Quality I Am Effort Worth Will

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