Bugs Quotes

• Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

  Max Lucado

  Light, Giving, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

  Ogden Nash

  God, Wisdom, Silly

  1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.

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• When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

  Bill Watterson

  Bird, Taste, Burping

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• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Travel, Kids

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• We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Running, Stress, Artist

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

  Wietse Venema

  Machines, Intrusion, Server

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• I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

  Allen Funt

  Paper, Radio, Hyde

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

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Computer, Programming

  Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

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• Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

  John Lithgow

  Funny, Time, Inspiration

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• Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

  Peter Weir

  Stars, Business, People

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• Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

  Joe Dante

  Journey, Trying, Goes On

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Years, Educated

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• Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Interesting, Challenges

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• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Country, Jobs, Years

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• Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

  William Petersen

  Mother, Father, Animal

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• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet

  Karrie Webb

  Thinking, Stills, Right Now

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• 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

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  Fiona Apple

  Birthday, People, Age

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• 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

  Writing, Glasses, Disease

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• I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, June

  Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
  Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Garden, Sky, Blue

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  Linus Torvalds

  Bazaars, Enough, Shallow

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• In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Today, Sticks, Share

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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