Bugtation No.18
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Engineers’ source codes “reveal their characters.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflexions and Maximes
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Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Bugtation No.17
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008“A new” bugfix “is often a” new “error.”
Malesherbes, Pensées et maximes
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Bugtation No.16
Monday, September 8th, 2008“A good” bugfix “is one that makes us wiser.”
Yuri Manin, A Course in Mathematical Logic
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Bugtation No.15
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Debugging “of today reminds one of the Tower of Babel, for few” engineers “can follow profitably the” internals of components “other than their own, and even there they sometimes made to feel like strangers.”
George Sarton, The Study of the History of Mathematics
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Bugtation No.14
Friday, September 5th, 2008Crash dump analysis ”is anticipated with” joy, “performed with” eagerness, “and bragged about forever.”
Anonymous
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Bugtation No.13
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Shakespeare on transitive nature of software defects, where one bug causes another, and so on, until the final effect or when memory corruption causes crash effects.
“… and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.”William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Bugtation No.12
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008“Sir, please believe me, it’s the first time this has ever happened. Have another try, don’t get upset. You know our” Programs “are” TESTED.
Jean-Pierre Petit, Adventures of Archibald Higgins: Euclid Rules O.K.?
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Bugtation No.11
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008The crash dump “is the message”.
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Bugtation No.10
Monday, September 1st, 2008I’m back from my holidays and here is my 10th anniversary bugtation:
“Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of” debugging.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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Bugtation No.9
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious” bug.
Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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Bugtation No.8
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Debugging “will one day be as necessary for efficient” programming “as the ability to read and write” code.
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Bugtation No.7
Monday, August 18th, 2008This bugtation is identical to the original quotation:
“Thank you for not dividing by zero.”
Unknown
Encouraged by this I propose another one 
“Thank you for checking for NULL pointers.”
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Bugtation No.6
Monday, August 18th, 2008“I admit that” debugging “is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.”
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Bugtation No.5
Sunday, August 17th, 2008“The great tragedy of” Software: “the slaying of a beautiful” program “by an ugly” bug.
Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays
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Bugtation No.4
Saturday, August 16th, 2008“O” engineers, “throw light on this error.”
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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Bugtation No.3
Friday, August 15th, 2008“If you find the” crash dump, “perhaps others may find the explanation.”
Sherlock Holmes, The Problem of Thor Bridge
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Bugtation No.2
Thursday, August 14th, 2008“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious” crash.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
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Bugtation No.1
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008First, a definition for a new word that I coined today:
Bugtation
noun
Date: 21st century
1. a modified quotation showing relation to debugging and troubleshooting
This is the first bugtation I would like to introduce and it is related to heisenbugs:
“There’s no such thing as” heisenbug;
“And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of” computation.Friedrich Schiller, Early Dramas
Deviations from original quotations are highlighted in blue. Welcome to the new literary art!
Note: if you notice any bugs in bugtations please let me know…
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