Boris Beizer Quotes

#1. Testing proves a programmer's failure. Debugging is the programmer's vindication.

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#2. A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

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#3. One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

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#4. Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

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#5. Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

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#6. I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.

Robin Wasserman

#7. Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered ... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

William Morris Hunt

#8. We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

Jamie Oliver

#9. A long sigh escaped him before he said, "We're in something of a predicament, love."
I turned my face to look up at him. "We are?"
Reaching, out, he stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. "Yes, my darling, because I very much want to fuck you.

L. H. Cosway

#10. More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

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#11. A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

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#12. The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Raymond Chandler

#13. Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

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#14. Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

#15. Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,
if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

Rumi

#16. I don't have a condom.

Kendall Ryan

#17. A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

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#18. In programming, it's often the buts in the specification that kill you.

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#19. Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

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#20. First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

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#21. If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.

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#22. What this world doesn't have is the three-wishes, go-to-the-ball-and-meet-your-prince, happily-ever-after kind of magic. We have all the mangling and malevolent kinds. Who *invented* this system?

Robin McKinley

#23. If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

Thom Yorke

#24. She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'.

Lindsay McKenna

#25. If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

Boris Beizer