Application Quote by Anders Hejlsberg

“Other than when dealing with exception-unsafe legacy code (which we'll discuss later in this Item), offering no exception safety guarantee should be an option…

— Scott Meyers

The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face…

— Verity Stob

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure.

— Seth Klarman

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

Remove failure as an option.

— Joan Lunden

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

— Craig Benzine

It doesn't guarantee that you are a failure when you try and fail, what guarantee failure is when you stop trying.

— Blaze Olamiday

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

— Anonymous

Failure is not an option for me.

— Myha'la

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

— Wietse Venema

My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code…

— Brad Fitzpatrick

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

— Edwin Catmull