From a__fake__address@127.0.0.1 Fri May 12 19:09:47 2000 Xref: news.spc.edu alt.folklore.computers:239124 Path: news.spc.edu!ord-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.myxa.com!nntp.upenn.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!pants.skycache.com.MISMATCH!triton.skycache.com!195.92.193.196!diablo.theplanet.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!argonet.co.uk!argbq79 From: Dave Daniels Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Quotations Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:02:26 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 60 Message-ID: <49bda5398da__fake__address@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: usercl04.uk.uudial.com X-Trace: lure.pipex.net 958156746 6494 62.188.154.145 (12 May 2000 18:39:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2000 18:39:06 GMT User-Agent: Pluto/1.14i (RISC-OS/4.00) I was looking through some old files the other day and came across the following: A FEW LESSER KNOWN FAMOUS QUOTES Here is a list of famous quotes and words of wisdom developed by the engineers from the (now defunct) Salt Lake City Operation of Hewlett-Packard. Over a period of several days they slowly appeared on a centrally located white-board. One day I copied them down to save them for posterity. --- Brett Carver, HP, Palo Alto, 5 May 90 01 "Code so clean you can eat off it." 02 "Learned more from a three minute bug fix than we ever did in school." - Bruce Sprinsteen 03 "Four score and seven (hundred) bugs ago, our fore-fathers brought fourth a new application." - Gettysbug Address 04 "If we can't fix it, it isn't broken." - Lab Manager 05 "Never test for a bug you don't know how to fix." - QA Manager 06 "Don't break it if you can't fix it." - Marketing Manager 07 "I think therefore I create bugs." - Descartes 08 "Debug is human, de-fix devine." 09 "There's a bug born every minute, and two to replace him." - P.T.Barnum 10 "The Bugs of Wrath" - John Steinbug 11 "There are two ways to write bug-free code; only the third way works. - unknown consultant 12 Final Message from the Titanic: "Fatal crash due to icebug" 13 "Bugs Bunny was an optimist." 14 "One small bug for man, one great program for mankind." - N. Armstrong 15 "The bug is mightier than the fix." - Cyrano deBuggerac 16 "Man does not live by bug fixes alone." - The Super-user 17 "For every bug fixed, there is a bigger bug not yet discovered." 18 "The bug stops here." - Harry Trubug 19 "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't have a fix." - Rhett Buggler 20 "I regret that I have but one fix to give for my country." - Nathan Hale 21 "I have just begun to debug." - John Paul Jones 22 "... Jesus cried with a loud voice; Lazarus, come fourth; the bug hath been found and thy program runneth. And he that was dead came fourth. - John 11:43-44 23 "Bugs, bugs everywhere, and not a fix in sight." 24 "I never met a bug I didn't like." - Will Rogers 25 "A feature is a bug with seniority." 26 "This time I'm going to get that cwwwazzy ewwwor." - Elmer Fudd Hope you enjoyed them. Dave Daniels -- ANTISPAM: Please note that the email address above is false. My correct address is: dave_danielsargonetcouk Please replace the and s with @ and . respectively when replying - Thanks!