"If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with."

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Source : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

Edsger Dijkstra

#Debugging Quotes #Want Quotes #Waste Quotes

“A habit does not a monk make.”
“If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.”
“I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”
“[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.”

Source : The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)
“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there!”
“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”

Source : Victor Serge (2011). “The Case of Comrade Tulayev”, p.21, New York Review of Books
“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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