Debugging Quotes

21 quotes by 16 authors

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
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. Debugging… — Maurice Wilkes
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to… — Eric S. Raymond
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. — Jesse James Garrett
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,… — Brian Kernighan
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
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. — Steven Levy
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is… — Fred Brooks
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis
Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by… — Bob Frankston
Testing proves a programmerâ€™s failure. Debugging is the programmerâ€™s vindication. — Boris Beizer
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start… — Edsger Dijkstra
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. — Eric S. Raymond
The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret… — Graham Nelson
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging… — Alan Kay
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

Who Wrote These Debugging Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 21 Debugging Quotes as follows: