Saturday, July 12, 2008

Remember voting machines?

Here's a quote sent to me by Frank Ford. Really gives one pause, doesn't it?

If airplane code were written to the same standards of reliability as voting machines, every day about 10 planes flying out of Baltimore/Washington International would experience a software failure during flight.

-Justin Moore, Duke University Software Analyst

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