Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs.
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"Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs."
― Bill Gates
Source: "No Single Metric Captures Productivity" by Ciera Jaspan, Caitlin Sadowski, Google; Chapter 2 in: Caitlin Sadowski, Thomas Zimmermann, "Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering"
See my Blog On Innovation for a summary of key takeaways from the book.
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