Building Quote by Bill Gates

Progress is made where progress is measured.

— Jack LaLanne

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

— Anonymous

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

In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step…

— Ludwig von Mises

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method…

— Eric Ries

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

— Niklaus Wirth

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

— Fernando J. Corbato

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

— Steve Ballmer

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

— George Santayana