From TomDeMarco's book ControllingSoftwareProjects: : If you were eating in a restaurant, and you saw a cockroach crawling up the wall, you probably wouldn't say, : "Oh look, there's ''the'' bug. Good thing it wasn't in our food." : Rather, you'd assume that the place was infested. ---- ''Actually, if a restaurant were software, we'd walk in expecting it was infested. Naturally, if we didn't see a roach until dessert, we'd say, "Oh look, there's ''the'' bug. Good thing it wasn't in our food."'' A software engineer would say, "Let's move to a different table and see if it happens again." ---- That's not a bug, it's a dessert!