Debugging

"The word bug has been used to describe an 'object of terror' ever since the fourteenth century. Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper, the inventor of COBOL, is credited with observing the first computer bug - literally a moth caught in a relay in an early computer system. When asked to explain why the machine wasn't behaving as intended, a technician reported that there was a 'bug in the system,' and dutifully taped it - wings and all - into the log book." -Hunt, Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

Non Language

"Two people are talking together. They understand each other, and they fall silent - a long silence. This silence is language; it may speak more eloquently than any words. In their mood they are attuned to each other; they may even reach down into that understanding which ... lies below the level of articulation. The three - mood, understanding, and speech (a speech here that is silence) - thus interweave and are one. This significant, speaking silence shows us that sounds or marks do not constitute the essence of language. Nor is this silence merely a gap in our chatter; it is, rather, the primordial attunement of one existent to another, out of which all language - as sounds, marks, and counters - comes. It is only because man is capable of such silence that he is capable of authentic speech. If he ceases to be rooted in that silence all his talk becomes chatter."

-William Barret, Irrational Man