[dotancohen]

  > I'm not sure how it would show up in quarterly results.

Technical debt is famously difficult to express in either layman's terms or financial terms.

[PearlRiver]

Everything can be expressed in financial terms- it is one of the guiding principles of the universe. Anyone who thinks they are above or beyond it will rue the day.

[ironmagma]

Yes but that representation can be over-applied and misleading. For example you can roughly estimate the price of the entire earth. What does that number mean though? Well, nothing, really.

[dotancohen]

I hope that you never loose a child and remain so naive.