Top 25 Bugs Quotes of 154 - Page 2

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

Writing, Tests, Bugs

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Alan Turing

Design, Bugs, Software

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Bill Gates

Numbers, Want, Bugs

"Focus" Magazine, October 23, 2005.

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

Brian Kernighan

Class, Debugging, Bugs

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

Boris Beizer

Tests, Bugs, Programming

Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Winston Churchill

Ladybugs, Butlers, Please

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Ken Thompson

Bugs, Impossible, Wells

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

George Galloway

Years, People, Bugs

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

Debugging, Bugs, Computer

Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Michael Palin

Travel, Bugs, Wander

The word trill really REALLY bugs me! Like who made that up???

Kim Kardashian

Bugs, Trill, Made

Twitter post from Oct 14, 2010

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth

Funny Inspirational, Bugs, Computer

Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Sports, Golf, Bugs

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Loretta Lynn

Lightning, Bugs, Diamond Rings

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

Kristen Bell

Tears, Bugs, Faults

I've never been compared to Bugs Bunny and that's amazing, thank you.

John Krasinski

Bunnies, Bugs

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

Iris Apfel

Inspiration, Bugs, Steps

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

Eugene Fitch Ware

Mind, Lightning, Bugs

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Bugs, Absence, Programming

"Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.

Thomas Eisner

Bugs, Earth, Might

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

Nick Mason

Racing, Bugs, Hooked

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Mark Twain

Editors, Eggs, Bugs

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation.

Guido van Rossum

Simple, Bugs, Causes