What I'm referring to actually is an old quote attributed to Bill Gates : "A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator,

What I'm referring to actually is an old quote attributed to Bill Gates : "A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer." ...which I've seen variations of lately.