I guess I'm taking it for granted that any piece of code is going to have multiple bugs in it, and you're going to spend more time debugging than you did writin

I guess I'm taking it for granted that any piece of code is going to have multiple bugs in it, and you're going to spend more time debugging than you did writing. I still don't think you've said anything that shows the maxim to be false in the general sense, only in the sense that it could be worded a little more clearly. But it's a proverb, not a design spec.