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Quote: "No programmers really work 60-80 hours a week, especially in a 5 day span."

Wow -- this person doesn't know about hackers (granted that it's a term with multiple definitions). The problem with hackers is not getting them to work, it's getting them to stop.

A true hacker will work on a project far beyond any practical termination point, perpetually thinking of ways to improve the code in ways that meet private aesthetic goals unrecognizable to others and having no bearing on earthly considerations.

Programmers that quit after eight hours and go home may fit well into a corporate culture, but they're not the kind of programming addicts about whom legends are born.

Poets have a saying that poems are never finished, they're abandoned. It's the same with programming, but only if you're a hacker.

p.s. found the original quote:

"A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned." -- Paul Valéry

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His point is that developers can work a lot on their own project, but you can't get them to work that much on someone else's project.