Quotes by Tony Hoare

About Tony Hoare:

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.
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A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists,...

Tony Hoare

There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the po...

Tony Hoare

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Tony Hoare

Author Bio

  • NameTony Hoare
  • DescriptionComputer scientist
  • AliasesTony Hoare
  • BornJanuary 11, 1934
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Engineer; Programmer; Writer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Turing Award; IEEE John Von Neumann Medal