Code Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines…

— 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

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

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

— Fernando J. Corbato

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

— Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

— Ken Thompson

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

— Martin Fowler

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

— Robert Henri

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

— Darl McBride

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