That's basically what the quote is implying - you should not be throwing things together and hoping it will work after debugging, but carefully designing to avoid bugs, so there won't be much if any debugging required.

An analogy to this can be found in the aviation industry: it's known that pilots do make errors and planes do crash, but such errors are treated as unacceptable and they try their hardest to minimise them. It's been a very successful strategy.

It is great when these work. Or when you have a high level team that doesn't abuse the system at all and gets things done using these strategies. I have seen too many times where the result is a system that even the creator does not fully understand. Worse, what should be simple changes turn into giant modifications of a Rube Goldberg machine.