Linus Torvalds Quotes

I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

Testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Code writers, they are my idols.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.