Part I. The Big Picture

 

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an “idiosyncrasy.” Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like “ID 02.” “ID” is an abbreviation for “idiosyncrasy” and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

 
 --Guy Kawasaki, “The Macintosh Way”
 

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

 
 --Douglas Adams, author of “The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy”

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