First place Quote by Brian Kernighan

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— Brian Kernighan

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

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine

“If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the…

— Robert C. Martin

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

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

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

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

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

— Richard E. Pattis

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

— Brian Kernighan

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

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

— Ellen Ullman