Bugs Quotes - Page 9

• A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

  Boris Beizer

  Tests, Programming, Threat

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

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• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

  Boris Beizer

  Rip, Tests, Programming

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• Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

  Boris Beizer

  Boundaries, Programming, Testing

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

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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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• When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

  Aaron Levie

  Stress, Passionate

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• Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

  Stan Goff

  Ducks, June, Two

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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Flower, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  Emily Procter

  Thinking, Color, House

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

  Dan Quisenberry

  Littles, Wonderful, Natural

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• In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jumping, Yelling, Ducks

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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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• 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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