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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

Ernesto 'che' Guevara

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Robert A. Heinlein

Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge. The amount of media attention regarding the destructiveness and rapid propagation of the worm are accelerating action to block and remove the virus.

Dmitri Alperovitch

The early bird may get the worm, but it?s the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Jeremy Paxman

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers or stomped it with his foot.

David Nielsen

Sasser is a successful and widely propagating worm with a somewhat benign impact to the end user. But people should absolutely remove it.

Chris Rouland

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Francis Beaumont

From now through September big fish will be in grass packs, ... You need to get a big one ounce jig with a frog or a crabapple or plum colored worm and find your wolf pack of fish.

Jay Yelas

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

George Bataille

That was the worm on the hook. We'll make contact with them one-on-one for more serious conversations later; let's show them a good time now.

Bob Pusey

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which gets the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

William E Bill Vaughan

EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

The Mexican chicken and worm or whatever it is.

Robert Vasquez

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists.

Russ Cooper

Code Red means there's a framework for a worm out there right now that has proven its effectiveness to spread. All [virus writers] need is a new vulnerability.

Jim Toole

If you were an enterprise that was attacked by this worm, the pain was very real. There was disruption of the network and a big investment in terms of getting everything back to a recovery state.

Debby Fry Wilson

Because of the first worm, too many people were suddenly starting to think about and investigate the possibility of writing a Mac OS X worm. Publishing the exploit as fast as possible is the best for all Apple users. I think at the end of the week, every Apple user will know about it.

Michael Lehn

This is going to cause the meltdown of the Internet, the vulnerability that this worm is exploiting.

Russ Cooper

I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.// I saw in a vision/ The worm in the wheat,/ And in the shops nothing/ For people to eat;/ Nothing for sale in/ Stupidity Street.

Ralph Hodgson

A few companies [may] get hit pretty hard, but probably home users are going to be the hardest hit by this worm.

Joe Stewart

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, / The shooting-stars attend thee; / And the elves also,/ Whose little eyes glow, / Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick

Our assessment of the worm damage is 'not serious'.

Roy Ko

I'm a worm digger. I got shot at two nights ago. It was coming from Bremen Harbor.

John Harvey

The worm may be dead, but hands-on learning is alive at Bailey Station.

Janet Martin

The main priority now is to minimize the effect of this worm. Therefore, the usual recommendations apply: keep security solutions up-to-date and scan the entire system to ensure that it is free from threats.

Luis Corrons

I will continue the course of my predecessor, ... For me the customer is the priority. My motto is: The worm must taste good to the fish, not the fisherman.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

This new Shaky Worm is going to be hard to beat. I can use it three ways depending on the conditions.

Larry Nixon

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

David Attenborough

Ultimately we can find out what molecules in the worm induce this protective response. Ideally, we will use those therapeutically.

Padraic Fallon

CANONICALS, n. The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven.

Ambrose Bierce

I used spinning gear and 6-pound line today. I had found my fish with a crank bait, but I just couldn't use it today. I used a worm. I had to slow down and finesse for them.

Mark Rose

To a worm in a horseradish; the whole world is a horseradish.

Yiddish proverb

Then, we thought maybe the police had gotten inside the group that made Sober and might be close to an arrest. But now it's likely that they found a date coded inside an earlier version of the worm.

Ken Dunham

[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns.

Alan Paller

This worm goes from being an embryo to having its own embryos in three days. Even a fruit fly takes 14 days to complete the same cycle.

Abby Dernburg

This worm is a medium threat in terms of its distribution, but in terms of the damage it can create, it's a more severe threat.

Art Gilliland

Forgotten rimes, and college themes,/ Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;/ A mass of heterogeneous matter./ A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Proverb

There were some high-profile customers that were attacked by the worm. That made the situation somewhat of a news event, and that gave us an opportunity to help educate computer users about security measures.

Debby Fry Wilson

I coached her through her singing debut, and she did great, ... And, she sings with a spider and worm.

Danny Elfman

The early bird catches the worm.

William Camden

Currently, all goverment and private sector watch centers are not reporting any unusual activity associated with the Code Red worm, but we will remain vigilant and continue to monitor the situation throughout the night.

Ron Dick

It wasn't that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wanted to understand the props before we shot, so I asked Paul 'Is this the hook?' and 'Where do you put the worm?' that's when the director just said 'Shoot these guys!' I didn't even know the camera was on, but it felt good!

Peter Falk

We did not see a widespread or fast spread of this in the first 24 hours. Over the last 24 hours, we've see variance, where other hackers will take the work and try to unleash a variant of the worm. So the worm continues to take on different forms.

Debby Fry Wilson

This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will be protected.

Graham Cluley

If the worm allowed too much inflammation it might kill the host, so the worm has evolved to reduce inflammation to protect the host.

Padraic Fallon

There will definitely be some traffic from this worm this evening. But I don't think there will be the widespread damage that's predicted. I could be wrong. But I don't think we're going to see anything like we've heard about.

David Perry

We are cautiously optimistic that the impact of the infection stage of this particular variant of the Code Red worm ... has been minimized.

Ron Dick

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Immanuel Kant

That points to the guy in Turkey, who is alleged to have paid the worm author for writing Zotob.

Graham Cluley

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Bible

Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Will Carleton

Worm theology is too high for me.

Jack Miller

The inside of his mouth looks like mud, just like he looks. Then he has this red tongue that is skinny and bright. ... It looks like a worm swimming around.

David Nieves

I think that when we are dead, we are worm food, I don't believe there is a greater place. I don't believe there is a greater purpose or a greater being. I have none of that. I wish I did to some degree, because the older I'm getting, the more I am aware of death and the inevitability of it, and it frightens me now, in a way that it didn't when I was younger.

Gary Numan

I had a great day. I didn't figure I'd be able to catch as many big ones as I did. I pulled in one little pocket and got well in 10 or 15 minutes. I had my limit by 11 a. m. I was using a Zoom green / pumpkin trick worm, and I was fishing no deeper than nine feet.

Koby Kreiger

Simple. A new vulnerability came out. The number of IIS 4 servers out there is a lot less than the number of IIS 5 servers. So when the IIS 5 vulnerability was announced, it made sense for the author to adapt his worm for that. People assumed it was a new exploit and it was not.

Jim Toole

We are continuing our coverage of tonight's big story: A computer worm that is spreading havoc in systems all over the world, ... Here is exactly what we know right now: Someone has unleashed a worm that cripples computers by forcing them to continuously shut down and restart. It's been a wild scene around our newsroom today because of that.

Paula Zahn

The difficulty is that worm developers are using tactics that have been successful in e-mail campaigns. They're able to mutate earlier worms and try different strategies, and that's giving them a level of sophistication.

Jon Sakoda

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm.

Christopher Klaus

Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!

Will Wright

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Mikhail Bakunin

To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantastic pattern that I've done really well on this winter.

Adam Grant

We've seen this worm spread quickly to a significant number of machines.

Jeffrey Carpenter

A worm is specifically designed to spread itself from one computer to another. It will infect a computer once, deploy its payload, and then try to move on to other computers.

Carey Nachenberg

(Our team) never did, never lost confidence in each other or the coaching staff. Playing the way we do, the worm will eventually turn. We'll eventually reach a more magical number than eight (wins). Maybe nine, 10, 11…. who knows?

Tommy Bowden

By then, we had already seen the worm about four times and we knew which five IP addresses it was going to go after first. By Sunday morning we were seeing 3200 attacks an hour from machines trying to run the exploit on our box. That's a lot of attacks.

Jim Toole

We have before us all the pieces of the puzzle that it takes to make a worm. Now we need to figure out how it works.

Robert Waterston

They have similar genes in the worm and the only reason we really know about what those genes do in people is because they've been studied in worms.

Robert Waterston

The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.

John Pescatore

Based on analysis of the worm, there will be a tremendous surge in the worm, ... There is reason for concern that the mass traffic associated with the worm's propagation could degrade the overall functioning of the Internet and impact ordinary users.

Ron Dick

Some guys will cast a plastic worm out there and hold it. But I like to keep moving.

Jack La Rew

People like this product for two reasons. First, it is worm excrement. Then it is packed in a recycled plastic soda bottle.

Barry Brinster

A virus infects files, which this does not do. It creates its own files. The way it crosses over could be seen by some as a worm-like feature but it does not spread any further like a worm.

Jonathan Read

If the worm can embed itself in a user's program, it becomes a widespread problem.

Andrew Jaquith

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Ambrose Bierce

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Eugenio Montale