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


Edsger Dijkstra

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If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.
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ALAN KAY Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code ...
BRIAN W. KERNIGHAN Software development is the process of creating a computer software.
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PAULO CAROLI Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
ELLEN ULLMAN You are removing different parts of the whole grain when you start to process them.
LISA MCDERMOTT Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning t...
OLI ANDERSON The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of th...
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY It's because you have to weigh the risk of causing damage to the brain in the process of removing th...
DR. JONATHAN GREENBERG You'll have automated federation of all aspects of the software development lifecycle process.
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RAY KURZWEIL We are in the process of looking at putting in a replacement structure.
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KATE MIDDLETON If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chao...
FELIX FRANKFURTER We're beginning the process of putting him in there. But that's a huge learning curve.
BRIAN METRESS If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The p...
STANLEY J. SARNOFF The real magic is the community process it has nothing to do with the software.
BILL HILF The real magic is the community process – it has nothing to do with the software.
BILL HILF The real magic is the community process – it has nothing to do with the software.
BILL HILF Don't write about Man; write about a man.
E.B. WHITE The process must be simple and affordable.
CHRIS PIRILLO If the political process is stalled, then we are in a very difficult situation.
CARL BILDT Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
HUGH LAURIE In the past, decommissioning as a process has been shrouded in secrecy and if we are to increase pub...
JEFFREY DONALDSON Love & service to humanity must always be ahead of religion,in the process of building a virile nati...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the pr...
MANDY HALE If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before ...
LEON KASS In a project like this, there is a design time. There are considerations to be made with engineering...
BOB MCKENZIE If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desir...
BAYARD RUSTIN Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programmi...
BILL GATES Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taki...
DAVID ANTIN If we are to persuade all students to do quality work, we must involve them deeply in the process of...
WILLIAM GLASSER The only way to achieve your goals in life, is to do everything you do for the PROCESS of doing it, ...
OHAD OTMI There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Operators are investing in software-based management tools that make the self-install process go mor...
MICHAEL PHILPOTT The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is ...
ANN PATCHETT If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctio...
MARK HALL To create and sustain a culture you must have a process, and that process must be: concrete, simple,...
JOHNNY WALKER There's always merit to having a debate. That is the point of the whole (educational) process, putti...
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HENRY ADAMS birth pangs of a process.
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JENNIFER GRANHOLM We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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JOACHIM PINHAMMER Whatever the government of Pakistan has may have stated in its letter to Interpol must be a perversi...
FARHATULLAH BABAR But at the same time, the political process must not be interrupted and it is very fragile in Sudan.
ANDREI DENISOV We had the car wash here for two years when we decided to begin the process of putting in the Fast S...
DON FULLER Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prospe...
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CHARISSE WARD The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.
J.ADAM SNYDER Given credible claims from observer groups and the opposition, there must be an impartial judicial p...
JEMERA RONE Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrow...
KABBALAH The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be ...
DAVID ANDREWS The application goes into the State, then they're on the waiting list to take the test. It's a slow ...
JANE HOFFA Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must...
WILLIAM GLASSER This software captures all the details of what their needs are. It's really the starting point of th...
JOHN WILLIAMS The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
JULIA CAMERON Right now sentiment is all loaded on one side of the market. It gives you the idea we're running lat...
PAUL NOLTE You have lots of people from around the world contributing new features to it, testing it, fixing bu...
BYRON SEBASTIAN There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fix...
BILL GATES My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
TADAO ANDO If you were one of the 1,000 people involved in this process, you wouldn't be happy.
ALBERT GIDARI She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finish...
JOHN IRVING It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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