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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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