Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FREng FRS (born June 26, 1913) is a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing
As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a largepart of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. Maurice Wilkes»