Quotes About Debugging

#1. In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.

Sherry Turkle

#2. Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Nicholas Negroponte

#3. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edsger Dijkstra

#4. Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

Michael A. Vine

#5. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian Kernighan

#6. And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.

Ernest Cline

#7. I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

Robert Patterson

#8. 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

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

Eric S. Raymond

#10. The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Graham Nelson

#11. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

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

Boris Beizer

#13. 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 Dijkstra

#14. System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Fred Brooks

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

Steven Levy

#16. The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Nicholas Negroponte

#17. The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Brian Kernighan

#18. But in a pinch, he was a capable coder too. He just wasn't especially fast. So when he was finally done coding and debugging his program and ran a successful test, it was past eleven on Tuesday night. He hadn't slept but for a few hours on Sunday night, and the lack of sleep had cooked him.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#19. After the debacle of the party, debugging the code running in his own brain was bliss. His body lay safely in his bed. His mind exulted inside the Nexus development environment, tracing the events that had led to the fault. Here he was in his element.

Ramez Naam

#20. The wages of sin is debugging.

Ron Jeffries

#21. Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

#22. The warmth and the soft glow of the tubes also attracted moths, which would fly through ENIAC's innards and cause short circuits. Ever since, the process of fixing computer problems has been known as debugging.

T.R. Reid

#23. System debugging, like astronomy, has always been done chiefly at night.

Fred Brooks

#24. Huh. Programming. Debugging. It wasn't Lincoln's favorite, but it beat archiving and compressing. At least it was a problem to solve. And it would only be for a few months, maybe less.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Linux provides programmers with everything they need: libraries, compilers, and debugging/development tools. These features are included in all standard Linux versions.

Andrew Johansen

#26. The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

Richard E. Pattis

#27. If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

Robert C. Martin

#28. One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Henry Spencer

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

Richard E. Pattis

#30. Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

Brian Kernighan

#31. What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

James Alan Gardner

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

Brian Kernighan