It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog. > A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstra

It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog. > A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,” he said https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/17/news-121/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/17/news-121/