Design Quote by Harlan Mills

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

“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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you…

— Brian Kernighan

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

— Brian Kernighan

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Arshad Feeroz

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

— Richard E. Pattis

“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

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness…

— Woody Allen

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