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• 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, Steps, Inspired

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• 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

  Mother, Simple, Black

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• There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Running, Dream, Giving Up

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

  Hayley Mills

  Running, Learning, Errors

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• Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

  Rosamund Pike

  Learning, Fancy, Programming

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• Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.

  Bruce Schneier

  Learning, People, Complaining

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• My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dad, Thinking, Pilots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Rocks, Fishing

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• Bugs Bunny is my muse.

  Billy Collins

  Creativity, Bunnies, Muse

  "Everyday moments, caught in time". "TED Talks", www.ted.com. 2012.

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

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Limits, Ability

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

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• First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

  Boris Beizer

  Law, Use, Pesticides

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

  Boris Beizer

  Design, Tests, Method

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

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

  Boris Beizer

  Tests

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

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

  Boris Beizer

  Design, Tests, Software

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

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• If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.

  Boris Beizer

  Impossible, Program, Testing

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• 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

  Weed, Moving, Garden

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 27, 2016

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.

  Sterling Marlin

  Running, Dummy

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

  Nick Mason

  Racing, Hooked

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• Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.

  Barbara Marciniak

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.70, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Art, Television Commercials

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• I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Years, People

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• I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

  Christopher Cross

  Texas, California, Stuff

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• The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

  David Cronenberg

  Children, Simple, Night

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