16 Great Quotes For Software Testers

Presented without further comment, in no particular order:

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.” – Author Unknown

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.” – James Thurber

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

If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.” – Gerald M. Weinberg

Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.” - James Bach

When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.” – Michael Bolton

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” – W. C. Fields

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.” – John Peel

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.” – Clifford Stoll

It’s more important to have the right people involved than it is to follow the process exactly right.“ – Rex Black

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.” – Author Unknown

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.” – Carl Sagan

The internet? That thing is still around?” – Homer Simpson

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adam

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein

Have a great weekend everyone.” – Mike Brown

18 Responses to “16 Great Quotes For Software Testers”

  1. Peggy Fobbe said:

    Awesome! This is going on the wall of my cube at work!

  2. Gagan said:

    All quotes are Cool ! Thanks for sharing ..

  3. Sumit Kalra said:

    “I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!” — Vidiu Platon.

  4. Mike said:

    Good one Sumit! I’m saving that one for later :)

  5. Pranav D. said:

    Nice quotes !
    One from me :
    “Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.”

  6. Mike said:

    I like it Pranav. I’m adding that one to my list!

  7. Frank said:

    I don’t often test…

    …but when I do, I test on production.

  8. Chowdary said:

    A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool

  9. Denise said:

    A couple that are on my whiteboard right now:

    QA doesn’t like surprises.

    I get paid to be picky.

    I want everything to work.

  10. Nehal said:

    Nice thoughts!!

  11. DIRIBA ELIAS HORDOFA said:

    All quotes on test are very nice!!10Q
    Take one quote from me:
    ” IF THERE IS A TEST THERE IS SOME THING BEHIND WHICH
    IS USUALLY FOR ITS CONSEQUENCE!!!”

  12. DIRIBA ELIAS HORDOFA said:

    _” WITHOUT TEST THERE IS NO SUCCESS AT ALL!!”
    _”DON’T FEAR ANY TEST IN THIS WORLD EXCEPT THE TEST FROM ONLY
    GOD& THE EVERY DAY TEST THAT COM ES FROM UR HEART ESPECIALLY WHILE U ARE ALONE!!!”
    _IF U ARE NOT READY TO TEST “THE WORLD, SATAN ,&FLESH” THE ARE
    ALREADY READY TO TEST U!! SO, HAVE A DREAM!!,IF U HAVE
    A DREAM ,U CAN’T BE CARELESS !!, IF U CAN’T BE CARELESS, U CAN
    OVER COME ANY TYPE OF TEST BOTH INTERNALLY OR
    EXTERNALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    1oQ ” MAY GOD BLESS U AS WELL AS SAVE U THROUGH HIS BELOVED SON JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  15. Carla said:

    If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

    Don’t make a downpayment on a worry that you may never have.

    If you don’t have time to do it right, how will you find time to do it over?

    I can’t remember who said what but I’ve read them in various articles/blog and they stuck with me.

  16. aphorism4you said:

    We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
    It is easy to lose important opportunities, and difficult to regain them; therefore when they present themselves it is the more necessary to make every effort to retain them.
    source: http://aphorism4you.com/topic-wise-saying-page22.html

  17. Shubham said:

    You make it,i break it !

  18. Amandeep Singh said:

    A great nice collection of quote, I have listed some of these in the random quotes section on my blog ;)

    Great compilation, Mike…

    Cheers,
    Aman

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