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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."
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"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
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"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
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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."
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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."
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
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"I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons."
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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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"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
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"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."
Language


"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."
Computer


"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."
Talent


"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Bugs


"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
God


"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."
Science


"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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"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
Art


"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."
Will
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