Advertisements
Fernando J Corbato Quotes
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same! (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems. (Fernando J Corbato Quotes)