Finally on the parallels between memory dump and software trace analysis and intelligence (Memoretics is a discipline that studies computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time):
Memoretics ”opens a unique window on” software “affairs”.
John H. Hedley, The Challenges of Intelligence Analysis, Strategic Intelligence, Volume 1
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“The people behind your” crashes.
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“… the vital point for you to understand is that all” tracing “must be conducted with the creation of” solution “in mind. That is what must colour and control your selection of” tracing “events.”
Michael Allen, The Truth About Writing
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“If you want to be thought a” debugger “, always” talk about bugs.
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“… he who has not been in” support “does not know what” debugging “is.”
Attributed to Leo Tolstoy, by Adam Ulam, The Bolsheviks
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Learning from Philip Marlowe, a detective:
“I like you,” she said suddenly. “You believe in miracles.”
Do you believe in miracles from a driver modifying an arbitrary user space? Or in a miracle of suddenly disappearing software incidents?
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Debugging is defaulting.
Dmitry Vostokov, “It’s time to stop faulting!” programme from the independent Irish political candidate for the next general election who was writing programs in the past
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A memory dump “analysis is never finished, it is only abandoned”
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… the functions you meet on the way up, … you’re going to meet the same functions on the way down. Not always…
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Crash dump makes noise.
Suzanne Vega, Blood Makes Noise
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God Bless the Debugger and his relations and keep us in our proper winstations!
18th century English verse
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Do we need to debug, really? (Selling the Debug Ethic1)
Whilst debugging leads to wealth
and will keep you in good health,
so its best to be contented with your bugs.Debug, boys, debug and be contented,
As long as you’ve enough to buy a computer.
The man, you may rely, will be wealthy by and by,
If he’ll only put his finger to the debugger.Harry Clifton (1824-1872)
1Bugtated the title of the book I’m reading now and a song from it: Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR
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A variation of the answer to the perennial question:
The Past is a Memory Dump.
Dmitry Vostokov, Founder of Memory Dump Worldview, the philosophy of Memoidealism, and the religion of Memorianity (Memory Religion)
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Have you ever noticed some pessimism on the faces of the prominent debuggers?
You will debug like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next Debugging
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Treat yourself, your family and friends with this selection of gifts from OpenTask store:
The perfect binary gift for your family and friends
The perfect gift for software engineers
The perfect gift for job hunters
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Just came up with this one for a starter:
Q. Why is the execution of this program so stable? A. Because there is a breakpoint at every instruction.
For those from countries in the past socialist camp like Soviet Union it might appear bugtated from a joke I heard from one Moscow State University mathematics professor when I was a student:
“Q. Why is the Communist Party course always straight? A. Because there is an inflection at every point.”
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On the value of study and perseverance. It all started with dumb 0xc0000005 (resulted in a dump) and ended up with 5 volumes of Summa Memorianica (Memory Dump Analysis Anthology):
The Dumb 0x.
Albertus Magnus said of Thomas Aquinas
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After firing 3 bugtations in a row noticed that I lost all followers 
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A Momentary Lapse of Computation.
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The first bugtation where the source book title and the chapter number and name were bugtated too:
The engineer who has no tincture for memory dump analysis goes through life cycle imprisoned in the prejudices derived from coding… (The Problems of Computation. Chapter 0x5: The Value of Memory Dump Analysis)
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter XV: The Value of Philosophy
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