As you install the final piece of crown molding in the dog's second bedroom, you can't help but smile at the absurdity of it all.

It's impossible to predict every possible scenario that could befall our applications in the wild. But we need to at least try.

The logic error is the most dangerous and insidious of all software errors.

You can have a bug in your code and/or in your test. You're unlikely to have the *same* bug in your code and your test.

Your client knows what's wrong. They *think* they know how to fix it. But treating symptoms is never as effective as treating the disease.

Compile errors are easy to keep out of deployed code (just remember to Debug > Compile). Which is good because they hard crash Access in Runtime mode.

Every programming language has its own syntactical quirks. The C family loves braces. Python loves indentation. BASIC loves words. And Perl loves #%@!{}]&.