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 …

- Tony Hoare

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

- Tony Hoare

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.

- Tony Hoare

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

- Tony Hoare

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

- Tony Hoare

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

- Tony Hoare

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction ari…

- Tony Hoare

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those…

- Tony Hoare

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

- Tony Hoare