A Quote by Tony Hoare

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Tony Hoare

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Tony Hoare
British - Scientist
Born: January 11, 1934

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

Tony Hoare

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

Tony Hoare

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger Dijkstra

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Garrett Hardin

Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.

Rachel Simmons

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Fred Brooks

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

Nancy Leveson

Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.

Charlie Munger

People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.

Gian Fulgoni

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

Diane von Furstenberg

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

Massimo Pigliucci

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

E. O. Wilson

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

Martin Jacques

I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, the case for the reliability or unreliability of various cognitive mechanisms lies elsewhere.

Hilary Kornblith

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Tom Shadyac

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