Behavior Quote by Nicholas Negroponte

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

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

— Richard E. Pattis

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and…

— Seth Godin

“A great problem-solver won’t attempt to learn everything: To do so will waste tremendous time without making progress. Spending a few weeks or months…

— Nat Greene

“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to…

— Douglas Adams

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Ellen Ullman

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

— Masaaki Hatsumi

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

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine