In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.