Debugging famous quotes

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
-- Alan Kay

#People #Trying #Debugging

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
-- Boris Beizer

#Debugging #Testing #Prove

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
-- Brian Kernighan

#Tools #Debugging #Print

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Funny Inspirational #Debugging #Bugs

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.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Debugging #Want #Waste

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Debugging #Improvement #Rapids

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
-- Jesse James Garrett

#Hard Work #Technology #Debugging

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.
-- Maurice Wilkes

#Mistake #Technology #Debugging

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
-- Nicholas Negroponte

#Thinking #Debugging #Programming

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
-- Steven Levy

#Bugs #Debugging #Computer

The wages of sin is debugging.
-- Ron Jeffries

#Debugging #Wages #Sin