Niklaus Wirth Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

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

  Niklaus Wirth

  Death, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.

• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Design, Contemplation, Program

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

• Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Design, Example, Development

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

• Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Sight, Drawing, Design

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