44 Quotes by Niklaus Wirth

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

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.

The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.

I know of a particular, very large software producer that explicitly assumes that design takes 20% of developers' time, and debugging takes 80%.

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Go To statement considered harmful.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

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