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Quote by 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.”

Quote by Tony Hoare

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Tony Hoare is a renowned British computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages and algorithm design. He is recognized for proposing the Quicksort algorithm and participating in the design of the ALGOL 60 programming language. more

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