Here is a GREAT quote.

If programmers got paid to remove code from sofware instead of
writing new code, software would be a whole lot better.
-Nicholas Negroponte, Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chairman of MIT’s
Media Laboratory ( from And, the rest of the (AIGA Conference) story)

Based on all the code purging that a particular collegue of mine and I have been doing lately - this quote just stood out to me. We have been throwing out the bad, ugly, marginal etc - in favor of LESS code - done better.
This quote is quoted in 37 Signals (of RoR fame) Get Real - interesting read moreover. It covers your basic agile principals - just not really branded as ‘agile stuff’ but 37 Sigs general guide to success developing WEB APPS.  This PDF only book generally describes how small teams, delivering iteratively, being lean can do well. This is the agile song - said well by a good group of guys. I give Get Real the thumbs up. Nothing revolutionary - but it is a decent read.
-Chris

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