A Quote by Brian Kernighan

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

Brian Kernighan

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Brian Kernighan
Canadian - Scientist
Born: January 1, 1942

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Tim DeChristopher

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

John Robbins

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

Bill Brandt

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

Eric S. Raymond

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Edsger Dijkstra

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.

Walter E. Williams

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

Kurt Eichenwald

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Charles Dickens

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Blanche Lincoln

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Anwar Sadat

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

Kenneth E. Iverson

Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick.

Per Hallberg

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.

Kenneth E. Iverson

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