Connectors Quote by Nat Friedman

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

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

— Robert Patterson

“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

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

— Eric S. Raymond

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

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency…

— Donald Knuth

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code…

— Eric S. Raymond

An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides…

— Harlan Mills

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

— Fred Brooks

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

— Brian Kernighan

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

We try to continually push ourselves to do more and more, not just on the hardware side but also in terms of developers' tools…

— Tim Cook