Category: Debugging


Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.

- Filipe Fortes @fortes

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

- Alan J. Perlis

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 W. Kernighan

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

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code

- Dan Salomon