He was quoting Fernando Corbato who was comparing lines of assembly to lines of PL/I in large projects. Corbato later recalls this in an article in Byte. Crob

He was quoting Fernando Corbato who was comparing lines of assembly to lines of PL/I in large projects. Corbato later recalls this in an article in Byte. Crobato's Law is mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3