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 W. Dijkstra
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The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Brian Kernighan
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.
Bill Gates
This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but it is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
On your first appearance before the Court, do not waste your time and ours telling us so. We are likely to discover for ourselves that you are a novice but will think none the less of you for it. Every famous lawyer had his first day at our bar, and perhaps a sad one….Be respectful, of course, but also be self-respectful, and neither disparage yourself nor flatter the Justices. We think well enough of ourselves already.
Robert H. Jackson
Dijkstra, Edsger W.
DiLascia, Paul
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