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.

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.

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.

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.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Introspect! Is your life moving forward or just moving like a pendulum?

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I'm an introspective dude.

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.