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Some people mistakenly refer to software defects as bugs. When called bugs, they seem like pesky things that should be swatted or even ignored. This trivializes a critical problem and fosters a wrong attitude. Thus, when an engineer says there are only a few bugs left in a program, the reaction is one of relief. *Supposed, however, that we called them time bombs instead of bugs.* Would you feel the same sense of relief if a programmer told you that he had thoroughly tested a program and there were only a few time bombs left in it? Just using a different term changes your attitude entirely.
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Watts S. Humphrey (Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself (Sei Series in Software Engineering))
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Just five days after Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act, the confrontational arrest of a Black motorist by a white police officer in the Watts section of Los Angeles exploded into violence that would be variously described as a riot or a rebellion. By either name, it caused thirty-four deaths and $40 million in property damage over nearly a week. The Watts turmoil helped catalyze a backlash by white voters that led to the Republican Party winning forty-seven seats in the House of Representatives in the 1966 midterm elections, effectively throttling the idealistic ambitions of Johnson and Humphrey.
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Samuel G. Freedman (Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY))