Able Quote by Jerry Pournelle

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

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

— Hayley Mills

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs…

— Robert D Keppel

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

— Ellen Ullman

“debugger, a tool that will preserve your C source code after compilation and enable you to do such things as step through it manually,…

— Wiki Books

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

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

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs…

— Guido van Rossum

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

— Tony Hoare

“Writing and repairing software generally takes far more time and is far more expensive than initially anticipated. “Every feature that is added and every…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you…

— Will Wright