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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
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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."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"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."
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"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science."
"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."
"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."
"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones."
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