Programming Quote by Robert C. Martin

“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

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

— Michael A. Vine

“When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a good time.”

— Peter Seibel

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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you…

— Brian Kernighan

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

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— 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

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

— Boris Beizer

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the one to put them in

— Arshad Feeroz

“Just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything.”

— Steven D. Levitt

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