...never crashes

NASA-in software, navodno:

...never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats: the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.

Poučan članak. Za nas programere, za one koji organiziraju projekte u kojima sudjelujemo i za naručioce. Nažalost, ovi zadnji (naručioci) ne čitaju takve stvari. Da čitaju - ne bi se čudili na spoznaju koliko vrhunski software u stvari košta:

The group has one customer, a smart one. And money is not the critical constraint: the groups $35 million per year budget is a trivial slice of the NASA pie, but on a dollars-per-line basis, it makes the group among the nation's most expensive software organizations.

Link: They Write the Right Stuff.