[salawat]

The key to a high quality product is simply to be unwilling to compromise.

Look at the Space Shuttle's code. Look at the code and systems to drive anything where any level of assurance must be maintained.

Quality is hard. It is all encompassing, and for all too many optimizing decision makers, it is "The crappiest thing I can sell without looking like a nitwit, or killing somebody, that takes the least money to develop or doing something so blatantly illegal I can't get the lawyers to realistically dig me out.".

The rest is noise.