Fernando J Corbato Inspirational Quotes (3)

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.