Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

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

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

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.

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.

The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

I've got holes in my guitar.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.