“…perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug….”

— Paul DiLascia

1995/10
About Microsoft

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "…perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug…." by Paul DiLascia?

Paul DiLascia photo

Paul DiLascia 44

American software developer 1959–2008

Related quotes

“"The question is, is that a bug or a feature?" Karl asked.”

Rick Cook (1944) American writer

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.”

John Scalzi book Redshirts

Source: Redshirts

“Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?
Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[199710050130.SAA04762@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.”

Fernando J. Corbató (1926–2019) American computer scientist

Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 78

“The fact that there is gridlock in DC and it's tough to move legislation is a feature, not a bug of the system. Had they wanted one-party uncontested rule, they could've set us up with a parliamentary democracy.”

Markos Moulitsas (1971) American blogger

Third Party Dreaming on a Winter's Day, Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/8/15484/60943,

“When I released GNU Emacs and people started using it, they started sending me improvements in the mail. So I would get a message with a bug fix, and a message with a new feature, and another bug fix, and another new feature, and another… and another… until they were pouring in on me so fast that just taking advantage of all of the help people were giving me was a big job. Microsoft doesn't have this problem.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

"The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System", address at LinuxTag (July 2000)
2000s

“The rhetorical extremism, the winking at violence, the reveling in vulgarity, and the embrace of amoralism are not bugs but features of Trumpism. Intellectual and moral coarsening is both a condition and a consequence of the demagogue's success. Trumpism really does corrupt.”

William Kristol (1952) American writer

Twitter post https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1053642303372386304 (20 October 2018)
2010s, 2018

“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”

William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…

Vol. II, p. 342.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

“My bugs don't have bugs.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

Related topics

Bug
Feature