Christopher Strachey Quotes
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It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.
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You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.
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It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
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It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
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Christopher Strachey
- Born: November 16, 1916
- Died: May 18, 1975
- Occupation: Computer Scientist
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