Bugs Quote by Donald Knuth

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs…

— Guido van Rossum

“Pascal (Object Pascal - Free Pascal) for real programmers, Delphi for Nerds... C/C++ for people who always wishes to do things like reinventing the…

— Rejie Roque

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program…

— Jerry Pournelle

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a…

— Peter Seibel

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common…

— Philip Greenspun

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

— Peter Norvig

“There are only 2 hard things in programming: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.”

— Mattt Thompson

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs…

— Robert D Keppel

“Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline…

— Gerald M. Weinberg