Careful Quote by 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

“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

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

“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

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

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

— Richard E. Pattis

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

— Eric S. Raymond

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

— Fred Brooks

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

— Robert Patterson

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

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Michael A. Vine

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

— Bjarne Stroustrup