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The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.