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"Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs."- Bill Gates.

• breck 17y ago
  link? I'm just curious. Would love to read more about BG's thoughts on coding.
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  • alexandros 17y ago
    Can't locate a source for this on google. I'm calling urban legend.
    • dkersten 17y ago
      "Just because Google cant find it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist" - Albert Einstein.
      • alexandros 17y ago
        "A witty saying proves nothing" - Voltaire Look, this saying is by Bill Gates, should have been made in the last 30 years, it returns three pages of results, and yet none of them are mentioning a source. Some are referencing each other, and some are also including the '640k should be enough for anyone' legend. Yes, it's not 100%, but the indications are not good. The ultimate counterargument of course would be a source.
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        • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
          "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
          • mlinsey 17y ago
            "Famous remarks are seldom quoted correctly." -Simeon Strunsky
            • dkersten 17y ago
              "Simeon Strunsky never said that" - Joe Ball
• emarcotte 17y ago
  That's interesting because Andy, on the first episode of "Nerd TV" said Bill was big on trying to get developers brag about how little time/code/etc, and implied it was so he could try and get them to commit to smaller budgets
  • Hagelin 17y ago
    That story is also on Folklore: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...