Code Quote by Ken Thompson Download Open image “One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.” — Ken Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Code Lines Productive Productive Day Productivity Programming Throwing
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.' — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things. — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system,… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When we're done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image