Code Quote by 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

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

— Brianna Wu

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in…

— Capers Jones

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering…

— William J. Clinton

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

— Ken Thompson

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

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

— Ken Thompson

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the…

— Alan Cooper

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

— Darl McBride

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical…

— Niklaus Wirth