> I think it would be wrong to focus on the number. The important piece of wisdom here is that bugs get more expensive, even exponentially more expensive, to fi

> I think it would be wrong to focus on the number. The important piece of wisdom here is that bugs get more expensive, even exponentially more expensive, to fix the later they are found. This is always how I interpreted it. It thought this was the obvious interpretation, since it's all but certain that no universally applicable number exists.