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Debugging Quotes 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 are,…
- The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
- 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…
More Debugging Quotes
- When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
- Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer
- I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is… — Robert Patterson
- 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… — Maurice Wilkes
- Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From… — 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… — Brian Kernighan