Assembly Quote by Fernando J. Corbato

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than…

— Nat Friedman

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

— Fernando J. Corbato

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“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

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

— Eric S. Raymond

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code”

— Steve McConnell

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

— Ken Thompson

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

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

— Michael A. Vine

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when…

— Bill Gates