"If debugging is the process of removing software……" — Edsger Dijkstra

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must… - Edsger Dijkstra

"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

— Edsger Dijkstra

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73 Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

Edsger Dijkstra has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what…
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I…
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great…
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can…
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable…
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so…
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its…
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in…

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More Bugs Quotes

This quote is filed under Bugs Quotes, one of 339 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in… — Kristen Bell
I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. — Anthony Bourdain
Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters! — Brooke Burke
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the… — Nicolas Cage
I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or… — Kirk Cameron
I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me. — Drew Carey
Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant'… — Criss Angel
The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because… — Fiona Apple
Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free — Bill Gates
We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say. — Brandon Prust
She is a water bug on the surface of life. — Gloria Steinem
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. — Grace Hopper

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