Programming Quote by Arshad Feeroz

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

— Anonymous

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

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no.…

— Ellen Ullman

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

— Richard E. Pattis

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

— Ellen Ullman

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

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

“debugger, a tool that will preserve your C source code after compilation and enable you to do such things as step through it manually,…

— Wiki Books

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

— Anonymous

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

An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides…

— Harlan Mills