Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. Bill Gates
A system composed of 100,000 lines of C++ is not be sneezed at, but we don't have that much trouble developing 100,000 lines of COBOL today. The real test of OOP will come when systems of 1 to 10 million lines of code are developed. Ed Yourdon
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. Ken Thompson
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. Corbató
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. Mitchell Baker
If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient. Kevin Mitnick