Timo Tijhof

Tony Hoare passed away.

This quote stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity, later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

C. A. R. Hoare - Wikiquote

Mar 22 at 2:24amWeb
Show threadChris Palmer1d ago
@krinkle Another favorite: "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."
Show threadYesBait23h ago
@krinkle met him a few times in my life. Not only an amazing researcher, but a great person. After Wirth passed away 2 years ago, the next big loss for computer science.