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.

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.

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.

I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feelThe torments of love.

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.