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Debugging Quotes

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

Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

"The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.

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

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."