Amount Quote by Bill Gates

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

— Martin Fowler

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in…

— Capers Jones

“Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic—a totally streamlined organization in…

— Thomas J. Watson

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

— Roy Romer

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

— Bill Gates

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

— Anonymous

“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew…

— Bill Gates

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

— Anonymous

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

— Anonymous