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• Quote #500 `... if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ``lines produced'' but as ``lines spent.
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• Brief History Of Linux (#17) Terrible calamity IBM chose Microsoft's Quick & Dirty Operating System instead of CP/M for its new line of PCs.
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• Quote #629 Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
  -- Bill Gate...
• Brief History Of Linux (#16) Closed source, opened wallets In 1976 Bill Gates wrote the famous letter to Altair hobbyists accusing them of "stealing software" and "preventing good software from being written".
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• code monkey n 1. A person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform the higher-primate tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design.
  Mildly insulting. Often applied to the most junior people on a programming team....
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• Brief History Of Linux (#21) The GNU Project Meet Richard M.
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• Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
  At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....