I didn't really look at the quote as being a literal, canonical truth. I have my own doubts about it being _literally_ true, but I feel that the underlying idea

I didn't really look at the quote as being a literal, canonical truth. I have my own doubts about it being _literally_ true, but I feel that the underlying idea that "the longer a bug persists through the development process the costlier it becomes to fix" is true.