Debugging Quotes

Debugging Quote of the day

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wages of sin is debugging.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.