Acquire Quote by Hayley Mills

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs…

— Harlan Mills

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

— Paul Dickson

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

— Wietse Venema

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to…

— Tony Hoare

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay…

— David Parnas

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

— John C. Lilly

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program…

— Jerry Pournelle

“Dijkstra once said, “Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of bugs.” In other words, a program can be proven incorrect by a test,…

— Robert C. Martin

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

— Richard E. Pattis

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

— Anonymous

“Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them “unexpected additional features.” Very”

— Paul Wilton

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

— Alan Perlis