I remember a story (don't know from where) in which someone was hired to reduce the size of a code base. His compensation went up for each line of code deleted

I remember a story (don't know from where) in which someone was hired to reduce the size of a code base. His compensation went up for each line of code deleted and went down (by a bigger amount) for each time he caused a crash. It may not be true, but I like the story anyway.