Code Quote by Capers Jones

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in…

— Capers Jones

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when…

— Bill Gates

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

— Jon Evans

“Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less…

— Robert C. Martin

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

— Jay Weatherill

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

“While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations”

— Tom DeMarco

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

— Jessica Livingston

“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.”

— Diana Waring

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

— Anonymous

“developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code”

— Steve McConnell

“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”

— Pearl Zhu