Average Quote by Bill Gates

The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2…

— Steve Jobs

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't…

— Bill Gates

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

— Bill Gates

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

— Larry Constantine

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

— Bill Gates

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

— Jon Evans

“The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made…

— Paul Graham

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

— Kent Beck

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when…

— Bill Gates

“The big change has been in the hardware/software cost ratio. The buyer of a $2-million machine in 1960 felt that he could afford $250,000…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Software engineering economics.

— Barry Boehm