Astronomy Quote by Fred Brooks

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.…

— Maurice Wilkes

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

— Michael A. Vine

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

— Brian Kernighan

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

— David Hewlett

“If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the…

— Robert C. Martin

“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

“The oldest computer hardware I worked on was in professional astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides…

— Harlan Mills

“When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a good time.”

— Peter Seibel

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the one to put them in

— Arshad Feeroz

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

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no.…

— Ellen Ullman