A Quote by Ellen Ullman

Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.

Ellen Ullman

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Ellen Ullman

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Virginia Postrel

Most ISIS members are irreconcilable. Once they've bitten that bug, that cultish bug, they would prefer to die. They're going to be given the opportunity, no one's going to get out alive from Iraq and Syria now. They make sure everyone's a suicide bomber now.

Malcolm Wrightson Nance

You know that running bug people talk about? Well, I've been well and truly bitten.

Sadiq Khan

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

Brian McKnight

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

Scott McNealy

Unlike government entities, the private sector has the technical knowhow and experience to build and operate complex communications systems.

Michael O'Rielly

A documentary on MTV about the Dutch scene was what sparked it all. I saw guys like Tiesto and Ferry Corsten talking about this thing called electronic music and I was instantly hooked. I started getting into it from then onwards, I was 12 years old and just completely bitten by this dance music bug. It's been my life ever since.

Hardwell

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

Edward Brooke

I think there's a real calling out there for leadership and maybe the Bush family could fill the void. All of us have been bitten by the bug to do something some day in our lives to help others.

Neil Bush

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Imelda May

Since I was 5, I was bitten by the bug of designing. It was all around me in my home.

Sussanne Khan

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.

George Monbiot

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

Luke Macfarlane

Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.

Steve House

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