[userbinator]

On the other hand, Dijkstra also has this quote which suggests he is not too fond of "mitigation" either:

"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."

[Klasiaster]

Yes, that's why the quote was already suggesting to use better languages, but mainly it's about attitude and being aware that things go wrong, so you should turn on what you can you responsibly decided to stick to C.