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American writer 1978Related quotes
“…perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug….”
1995/10
About Microsoft
“"The question is, is that a bug or a feature?" Karl asked.”
The Wizardry Compiled (1989)
“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs”
Dijkstra (1969) J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, eds, Software Engineering Techniques, April 1970, p. 16. Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27–31 October 1969. http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1969.PDF Possibly the earliest documented use of the famous quote.
1960s
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
“The holy world glows like a lightening bug.”
“The Fruit Bearer,” p. 29
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Forest of the Universe”
“Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.”
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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