“There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.”

—  Bill Gates

Focus Magazine No. 43 (23 October 1995) http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html <!-- pages 206-212 -->
1990s

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