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The boats, and trains, and cows and horses were quite meaningless to him, but not quite so baffling as the odd little figures which appeared beneath and between the colored pictures — some strange kind of bug he thought they might be, for many of them had legs though nowhere could he find one with eyes and a mouth. It was his first introduction to the letters of the alphabet, and he was over ten years old.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Ch. 6 : Jungle Battles
There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.
— Harper's Magazine (October 1938); quoted in Scott Elledge, E.B. White: A Biography (New York: Norton, 1984), ch. X: Mr Tilley's Departure (p. 209)
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.
jamie zawinski— "[1]" (About Ubuntu Bug)
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 m. stallman— The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given at LinuxTag, July 2000
There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.
larry wall— Usenet article <7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> (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— Usenet article <199710050130.SAA04762@wall.org> (1997)
That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
larry wall— Usenet article <6vu1vo%2489c@kiev.wall.org> (1998)
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole; How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book I, line 127.
Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.
— Mark Twain, letter of 15 October 1888 in George Bainton The Art of Authorship: Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work, and Advice to Young Beginners (1890).
The lightning bug is brilliant :;:; But he hasn't any mind He blunders through existence :;:; With his headlight on behind.
— Anonymous, widely circulated in American periodicals from the 1890s and early 1900s. The earliest known citation, in Fiber and Fabric, Vol 27, no. 683 (2 April 1898), p. 84,[1] refers to an unidentified issue of Charles Austin Bates' Criticisms, which ran from 1897 to 1902.
