quotes about Debugging
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
-- Alan Kay -
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
-- Boris Beizer -
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
-- Brian KernighanSource : "Unix for Beginners". Paper by Brian Kernighan, 1979.
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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
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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.
-- Edsger DijkstraSource : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
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Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
-- Eric S. RaymondSource : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
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Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
-- Jesse James Garrett -
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.
-- Maurice WilkesSource : Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
-- Nicholas Negroponte -
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
-- Steven LevySource : Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."