> Not really, because you can usually shake or tilt the pinball machine to set the ball free. And you can restart a program that crashes or reboot a system. Or

> Not really, because you can usually shake or tilt the pinball machine to set the ball free. And you can restart a program that crashes or reboot a system. Or workaround the bug. > These events happen (literally) once every few years or half decade. Software bugs happen (literally) billions of times per hour. Yes but you are looking at big impacting things. A TV that breaks because the power supply was badly engineered and a capacitor broke down doesn't get on the newspaper, as it doesn't an app that crashes on a phone. A software bug that makes a plane crash or make a company loose billions of dollars is something as rare as the kind of events that you pointed out.