• 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: The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
    "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.