Brian Kernighan

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

— Brian Kernighan

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— Brian Kernighan

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

— Brian Kernighan

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

— Brian Kernighan