"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

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Source : Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.

Maurice Wilkes

#Mistake Quotes #Technology Quotes #Debugging Quotes

“You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.”
“Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.”

Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Poison Cure"), 1999.
“I have to be careful when I'm around sweets.”
“If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.”
“Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.”
“What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.”

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