C. A. R. Hoare

"very occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked …"

"That is the great strength of PASCAL, that there are so few unnecessary features and almost no need for subsets. That is why the language is strong enough to support specialized extensions--Concurrent…"

"Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors."

"One fine morning, when the emperor felt hot and bored, he extricated himself carefully from under the mountain of clothes and is now living happily as a swineherd in another story. The tailor is canon…"

"Programming languages on the whole are very much more complicated than they used to be: object orientation, inheritance, and other features are still not really being thought through from the point of…"

"It was not only a worthy successor of ALGOL 60, it was even a worthy predecessor of PASCAL I was astonished when the working group, consisting of all the best known international experts of programmin…"

"Failures are much more fun to hear about afterwards; they are not so funny at the time."

"On October 11, 1963, my suggestion was to pass on a request of our customers to relax the ALGOL 60 rule of compulsory declaration of variable names and adopt some reasonable default convention such as…"