The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share
