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.

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

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

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

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The tedious never die

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Whose silence are you?