"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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Source: Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.11, Shambhala Publications
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