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

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.

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.

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.

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

Evil thenceforth became my good.