110 Bugging Quotes

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Famous Bugging Quotes

What was Watergate? A little bugging! — Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. — Linus Torvalds

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). — Eric S. Raymond

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian Kernighan

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer

To seek the hair in the egg, to pick faults where there are none. — Italian Proverbs

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests. — Dave Barry

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

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes. — Ralph Klein

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis

Error is always talkative. — Oliver Goldsmith

Short Bugging Quotes

  • We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsch
  • Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad. — John Corbett
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
  • When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. — Bill Watterson
  • To them, Biden's cognitive impairment isn't a bug. It's a feature. — Vivek Ramaswamy
  • One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. — Wietse Venema
  • Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

My Spy Quotes

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. — Ron Paul

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. — Chris Diamantopoulos

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see. — Ally Carter

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President — Edward Snowden

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. — Annabel Pitcher

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. — Mary Howitt

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. — Judy Blume

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. — Christine Keeler

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public. — Brigitte Bardot

Bug Quotes

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock. — Johnny Depp

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know. — Les Paul

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities. — Tucker Carlson

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life — Michael Palin

I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test — I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them. — Hal Finney

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it. — Kevin Fitzgerald

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia. — Jimmy Hoffa

My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits. — Iris Apfel

You can go to the gym 2 times per day, bench press 250, and run a marathon, but you'll never be as powerful as your gut bugs. — Will Bulsiewicz

Travel Bug Quotes

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place. — Harun Yahya

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone. — Tony Robbins

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen

Once a year go someplace you've never been. — Dalai Lama

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. — Pico Iyer

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick. — Magnus Carlsen

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

Bugging You Quotes

People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. Its gonna be a sad day when they dont. — Schoolboy Q

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. — Nomar Garciaparra

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. — Bette Davis

If you are fully focused on yourself and hardly think of others, you have been overtaken by the bug of the last days. — Enoch Adeboye

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. — Gene Tierney

In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies. — John Tanton

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad. — John Corbett

All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut

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. — Edsger Dijkstra

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More Bugging Quotes

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. — John Doerr

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please. — Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest. — Charlie Daniels

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

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks — Mira Grant

My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens. — Bob Hope

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code. — Tony Hoare

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. — Jim Rohn

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