Code Quote by Fernando J. Corbato

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about…

— Fernando J. Corbato

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

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

But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is…

— Marcus du Sautoy

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 use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more…

— Fernando J. Corbato

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

— Martin Fowler

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

It's harder to read code than to write it.

— Joel Spolsky

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare