"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."
— Debugging

January 1, 1970

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RADM Grace Hopper, on the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer at Harvard in August 1945, as quoted in Time (16 April 1984)