My theory is that the best programmers are not spitting out too much code fast. They are the ones who thought of how to build the best app. The best "building

My theory is that the best programmers are not spitting out too much code fast. They are the ones who thought of how to build the best app. The best "building builder" is not the person who can lay bricks the fastest, but the one who can produce an awesome looking and very functional building. I wonder what the "10x" ratio is for people like Paul Alen, or Marc Andreessen, or Dan Bricklin, or Dave Cutler, or Andries Brouwer, or Miguel de Icaza, or Bill Gates, or Tom Lane, or Markus Persson, or Linus Torvalds, or Bjarne Stroustrop, or Matsumoto, or (a personal hero) Grady Booch. Maybe someone who has actually worked with some of these giants can tell us whether my theory holds any water at all.