"As soon as we started programming, we found……" — Maurice Wilkes

More Debugging Quotes

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• If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature… — Eric S. Raymond
• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and… — Jesse James Garrett
• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as… — Brian Kernighan
• When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
• The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. — Brian Kernighan
• There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. — Steven Levy
• Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
• The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence… — Fred Brooks
• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the… — Brian Kernighan
• The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis
• Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just… — Bob Frankston

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