Bugs Quotes

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

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.

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

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

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

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

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

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

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

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

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.