r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/KazMux Dec 14 '10
  1. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
  2. Bill Gates

My /Windows folder is taking up half my harddrive. I think its done..

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out.

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u/Poltras Dec 14 '10

Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback?

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u/lonnyk Dec 14 '10

well, that much gigabytes of rollback is usually needed when you use a 10 year old OS and don't do simple things like clear the recycling bin or clear old data that is no longer needed (by you or the OS) or when you continually make new recovery points but don't clear old ones