Thursday, October 28, 2010

No Obvious Deficiencies

DeficientThere 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.

-- Charles Antony Richard Hoare (11 January 1934-), British computer scientist, creator of the Quicksort algorithm, 1980 Turing Award Lecture; Communications of the ACM 24 (2), February 1981: pp. 75-83

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