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Writing bugs means we're failing in our major activity. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies rely on our products; bugs can cause a lot of lost time and money. We could conceivably put a company out of business with a bug in a spreadsheet, database, or word processor. We have to start taking this more seriously.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1c887cd0-d0ac-47fc-95d9-df0ff5504aa7", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.18, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Be ashamed of bugs. If you think that there will be bugs in your code no matter what you do, and someone actually finds one (or a hundred), there's no cause for alarm: 'I knew it.' If you think that there won't be bugs in your code, but someone finds them anyway, you probably react with resignation: 'I guess I was wrong.' Both of these are counter-productive strategies for dealing with bugs. Plan carefully so they don't happen. If they happen anyway, you should be embarrassed, and find out why your plans failed. Then take action to prevent the same failures in the future.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "2fea2e9a-d062-4f59-af28-5c321b9f3001", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.04, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.84 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "All of the concrete suggestions in this section came from a few hours' discussion by nine people who had changed their attitude. These are ideas for how to implement a zero-defects strategy in your project. 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