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The longer it takes for a bug to surface, the harder it is to find.
-- Roedy Green
Law 1: Every program can be optimised to be smaller. Law 2: There's always one more bug. Corollary: Every program can be reduced to a one-line bug.
-- anonymous
Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.
-- Louis Srygley
The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply [to] software nowadays.
-- Ron Minnich
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
-- Bram Cohen
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer
Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.
-- Alan J. Perlis
It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
-- Brian W. Kernighan