The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

In The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code, Joel Spolsky clarifies his ninth step — Do you use the best tools money can buy? — with a colorful anecdote:

At my last job, the system administrator kept sending me automated spam complaining that I was using more than ... get this ... 220 megabytes of hard drive space on the server. I pointed out that given the price of hard drives these days, the cost of this space was significantly less than the cost of the toilet paper I used. Spending even 10 minutes cleaning up my directory would be a fabulous waste of productivity.