Half-Life 2 Bug Watch

A post to the HL2 World Forums reproduced on their front page offers an email reply reportedly from Gabe Newell with the status of Half-Life 2 (thanks Marcoux and Voodoo Extreme), offering some crunch time math:
Right now we are looking at our bug numbers. Each day you fix some bugs and you find some new bugs. The net number tells you how quickly you will get to zero.

At our current rate of find/fix bugs, we'll be down to zero bugs in 16 days.