Going Fast Slowly
From the article: "I no longer think about code lines as an asset to be accumulated, but rather as an expenditure to be avoided."<p>The obvious Edsger Djikstra reference:<p><i>[I]f we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.</i><p><a href="http://plasmasturm.org/log/linesspent/" rel="nofollow">http://plasmasturm.org/log/linesspent/</a>