Maurice Wilkes Quotes:
Ocupation: Computer Scientist
Life: June 26, 1913 - November 29, 2010
Birthday: June 26
Death: November 29
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. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
source: Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979. 
topic: Mistake, Technology, Debugging, Computer Programmers, Programming Funny, Coders, Funny Computer
