> "When you've got a bug, don't fix it. Write another piece of code to > recognize that it's about to happen and head it off."
There were several right answers and only a few unexpected answers. The notable unexpected answers included:
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"'Melinda French Gates' -> the wife of Microsoft's Bill Gates. Women prefer a straightly way, irrational but at the end there is always a more or less working result. [Koni]"
"Bill Gates, who also added 'And then charge the customer for the new software package'" [Ian Vellosa]
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Apparently, if the infamous computer scientist in question ever tires of MIT, there's a spot for him in Redmond WA. :) As many of you noted, it was MARVIN MINSKY who gave us this unique perspective on debugging.
Our winner of a signed copy of Struts in Action, selected arbitrarily by an artificially intelligent algorithm, is ... Nathan Rogers.
And, for posting the OT link to an article by Marvin's Java-bashing MIT colleague, which gave me the idea, another copy is slated for the equally infamous Mark Galbraith. :)
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NEXT:
Name the famous science fiction series whose various peoples and institutions were made to say:
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"Truth is a chameleon."
"All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand."
"One observes the survivors, and learns from them."
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The winner will be selected at random (or at least arbitrarily) from the correct responses. [The correct response being the one I expected =:)]
The contest will run until Friday, October 31, 2003, 23:59:59, so everyone has a chance to participate.
The lucky winner selected from the correct responses will receive a signed copy of Struts in Action.
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If you have an interesting science fiction or computer science quote that is hard to google, please send it to me. The first to suggest a quote that we use also wins!
-Ted.
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-- Ted Husted, Junit in Action - <http://www.manning.com/massol/>, Struts in Action - <http://husted.com/struts/book.html>, JSP Site Design - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1861005512>.
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