Amount 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 counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

— 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

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you…

— Will Wright

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

— Melanie Lynskey

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

— Martin Fowler

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

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people…

— James Gosling

“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a…

— Peter Seibel

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

— P. J. Plauger

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program…

— Jerry Pournelle