When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts…

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you…

— Brian Kernighan

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency…

— Donald Knuth

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Steven Levy

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not…

— Donald Knuth

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

— Boris Beizer

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the…

— Graham Nelson

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.…

— Maurice Wilkes

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the one to put them in

— Arshad Feeroz

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting…

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Jesse James Garrett