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

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"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."

John Hunter, British Surgeon

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"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."

Will Wright, American Scientist

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"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."

Cindy Crawford, American Model

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Dimebag Darrell, American Musician

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"He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him."

Tex Avery, American Cartoonist

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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist

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

Donald Knuth, American Scientist

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"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."

Markus Wolf, German Public Servant

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"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."

Dave Foley, Canadian Comedian

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

Hugo Pratt, Italian Cartoonist

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"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."

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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."

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"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."

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"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."

"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."

"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."

"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."

"He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him."

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

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

"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."

"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."

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

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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."

"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."

"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."

"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."

"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."

"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."

"Defect-free software does not exist."

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"Sure, but competition is good for the user."

"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."