Debugging Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.