Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

- Niklaus Wirth

Programming is usually taught by examples.

- Niklaus Wirth

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

- Niklaus Wirth

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

- Niklaus Wirth

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

- Niklaus Wirth

C++ is an insult to the human brain

- Niklaus Wirth

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

- Niklaus Wirth

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to…

- Niklaus Wirth

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

- Niklaus Wirth