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Programming Quotes by Bill Gates
- While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
- There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
- We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really…
- 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
- In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will…
- Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute…
- So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company, it was a…
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- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke
- Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying… — Ken Keyes Jr.
- We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. — Joel Spolsky