Niklaus Wirth People Quotations

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.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products