1. Tony Hoare - "I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years." Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
2. C.A.R. Hoare - "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."
3. Graydon Hoare - "Rust started as a personal project (on my own laptop, on my own time) in 2006. It was a small but real 17kloc native compiler for linux, mac and windows by the time Mozilla began sponsoring it in 2009-10."
EDIT: C.A.R. = Charles Antony Richard = Tony. Not to be confused with his twin brother C.D.R.