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• The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

  Nicki Minaj

  Culture, Pops, Animated

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• I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Years, Weight, Persons

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

  Eric S. Raymond

  Learning, Problem, Enough

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• I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

  Mel Gibson

  Writing, Years, Acting

  "Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Director Martin Campbell and Graham King Interview EDGE OF DARKNESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 27, 2010.

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• I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

  Chris Jericho

  Hockey, Fans, Hockey Fan

  "Chris Jericho...Breaking Down Walls In Wrestling & Music". Interview: Chris Jericho WWE, www.askmen.com.

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Absence, Program, Used

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

  Keith Richards

  Knowing, Sweat, People

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• MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

  George Galloway

  Years, People, Mutants

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• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  Lance Loud

  Reading, Sick, Parent

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• Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

  John Corbett

  Tired, Winning, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

  Hilary Duff

  Flying, Trying, Mouths

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• The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
  Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Garden, Spiders

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 217

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• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  E. O. Wilson

  Kids, Grew, Periods

  "E.O. Wilson's Advice for Future Scientists". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. June 21, 2013.

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• Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Absence, Programming, Shows

  "Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

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• From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

  Grace Hopper

  Technology, Computer, Said

  Time, April 16, 1984.

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• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Country, School, Eye

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• They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.

  Carl E. Olson

  Mail

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• Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

  Brian Kernighan

  Class, Debugging, Users

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• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  William Jacob Holland

  Life, Animal, Moon

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Cake, Insects

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Some primal termite knocked on wood.
  And tasted it, and found it good.
  And that is why your Cousin May
  Fell through the parlor floor today.

  Ogden Nash

  Cousin, Science, May

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

  Brandon Prust

  Hockey, Nhl, Care

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• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Ideas, Feelings, Misunderstood

  "Tavi Gevinson may take over the world while you read this". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2013.

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