Bugs quotes
154 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!"
"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."
"A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
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"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 is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous."
"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."
"Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug."
"Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free"
"Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one."
"I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing."
"When I was on set I tried not to bug Steven Soderbergh too much. "Why did you put the camera there?" But he was very open to my questions and definitely being on his set was really thrilling because he's such a master."
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug."
"They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber."
"What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?"
"The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me."
"I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug."
"I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore."
"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it."
"People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability."
"The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller."
"Steven [Soderbergh] is so generous and when I sat down to meet him for "Logan Lucky" he answered so many questions about directing, so when I was on set I tried not to bug him too much."
"We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further."
