Design Quote by Bill Mollison

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

— Junius

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to…

— Tony Hoare

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor…

— Donald A. Norman

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

— Linus Torvalds

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that…

— Amos Tversky

Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and…

— Daniel Dennett

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

— Peter F. Hamilton

“There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and…

— Tony Hoare

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

— Bill Hader

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

— Lewis Thomas

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

— John Lennon

“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from…

— Sherry Turkle