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

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.

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.

just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

Basbanes makes you love books.