Code Quote by Darl McBride

When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our…

— Darl McBride

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

— Darl McBride

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

— Darl McBride

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

— Martin Fowler

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

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

— Ken Thompson

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

— Ingo Molnar

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

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to…

— Linus Torvalds

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

— Dennis Ritchie

We can build a better product than Linux,

— Jim Allchin

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

— Steve Ballmer