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 what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.
Bill GatesPrograms today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, theyโll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.
Bill Gates