Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

— Niklaus Wirth, A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

Source: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/1995/02/r2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/2.348001

The citation labels this 'Wirth's law'.

Topics: software engineering