Bugs Quotes - Page 4

• Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Mistake, White, Letters

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• Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Smart, Frogs

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• Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Opportunity, Forever, Gone

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Simplicity, Programming, Complexity

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• People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

  Robert Frost

  People, Bed, Cracks

  The Observer (London), March 29, 1959.

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• I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.

  Jackie Collins

  Photography, Passion, Sleep

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• Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Spiders

  Song: Apeman

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• What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

  Bob Weir

  Dad, Kids, Watches

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• Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

  P. J. Plauger

  Two, Thirds

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.

  Thomas Eisner

  Earth, Might, Wells

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• Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you.

  Steve Backley

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• If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Always Trying, House, Camping

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.258, Crown Archetype

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• She is a water bug on the surface of life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sarcastic, Water, Surface

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• It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

  Jonathan Alter

  Powerful, Thinking, Littles

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• When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Summer, Kids, Bird

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• The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.

  Terence McKenna

  Cutting, Intelligent, Feet

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• The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

  Mark Twain

  Editors, Eggs, Should

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Simple, Drawing

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• Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Bird, Weakness

  "Why Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes Speech Was So Infuriating" By Karen Ocamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• Straight up from this road
  Away from the fitted particles of frost
  Coating the hull of each chick pea,
  And the stiff archer bug making its way
  In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair,
  Up the stem of the trillim,
  Straight up through the sky above this road right now,
  The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster
  Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm
  Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes.
  I try to remember that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Morning, Archer, Dark

  Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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• If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Debugging, Want, Waste

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Real, Science, Skulls

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Giving, Peculiar, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Want, Significant

  "Focus" Magazine, October 23, 2005.

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