Logo
Quote by Richard Pattis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove def

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. – Richard Pattis

Other quotes by Richard Pattis

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it. – Richard Pattis

Category:
Programming
Author
Richard Pattis
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Programming
category

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. – Martin Golding

Category:
Programming

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. – Doug Linder

Category:
Programming

The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. “But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.” Matthew 5:37 – Author Unknown

Category:
Programming

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. – J.Osterhout

Category:
Programming

Random Quotes

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life. – Mandy Patinkin

Category:
mom

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether its starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. – Ann Bancroft

Category:
Courage

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb

Category:
Promises

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. – Proverb

Category:
Wisdom