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When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project
managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on
the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was
silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation
routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put "-2000" on the
form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the
form, and he gladly complied.