Books Quote by Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

— Edsger Dijkstra

In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

— James Badge Dale

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see…

— Erik Naggum

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

— Alexander Kluge

Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

We don't know where the lines should be drawn. Which to me means that we people of goodwill have to bend over backwards to…

— Maria Echaveste

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

— Martin Fowler

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of…

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— Ken Thompson

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

The lines project

— Anonymous