Astronomy Quote by Fred Brooks

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

— Fred Brooks

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of…

— Simon Newcomb

I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time…

— Sandra Faber

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

— Brian Kernighan

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

— Nicole Krauss

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just…

— Sherman Alexie

“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

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

— Michael A. Vine

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about…

— Fernando J. Corbato

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