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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
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"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."

"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."
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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."

"Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in."

"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."

"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."

"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."

"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."

"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
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