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This question literally froze me, got me brainstorming and thinking about all the lines of code I've written. 10 print "BEST!"
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Interesting question, although I caught the 'meta' nature of it as soon as I saw it. Probably because I'm an old guy, and I expect these sorts of sunshiny things from interviewers. On to my answer.
The best line of code I've ever written is the one I didn't have to write. More and more I find myself writing less code to do the same job. As my career has progressed I've learned to write more efficient code with fewer lines. I've learned to make the API's I create now as simple as possible (but no simpler  ) for the guy who's going to use them, namely me in another hour or two. I see this most often when I'm refactoring older code I wrote 5, 10, or even 20 years ago (yes, we have code that old we're still actively using and maintaining). Almost always I end up with less code than I started but I've fixed a bug, added a feature, or both.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Haha, so true. I don't remember the rest, but mine likely started with // or /*
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Often, I'm more proud of the code I managed to remove from a project than the code I actually added.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Benefits of open source far outweigh the disadvantages. The 'eyes' have it
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And by open source, I mean where I get paid to use open source...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The 'eyes' have it
Only when (or if) they look at it and even then...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Scammers use fake 'unsubscribe' spam emails to confirm valid email accounts to be used in future phishing and spam campaigns. So I can stop unsubscribing from newsletters I never get?
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Rather 1995.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Sigh. That explains my email blowing up. I don't know how or why, but I think my main email got out there for investments. I was getting dozens of emails all thanking me for signing up, please subscribe, I need your CC, etc. As an experiment, I tried unsubscribing consistently. Now, I know I was likely confirming a live email address, but hey, it was an experiment. Boom. More email.
It's like when I gave $50 to Special Olympics. Within 3 months, I had dozens of organizations mailing me for funds. Never again.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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While the platform already has a database of literally billions of passwords, emails, and account details that have been compromised over the years, this new partnership means the Bureau will be piping in freshly compromised passwords found during its own investigations. You'll now get a visit from "the men in black" if you try to use 'P@ssword1'
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As long as they don't wear the sunglasses... everything is fine.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The details come from unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against the company They are a 'search' company
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If they can't be found, they can't be changed...
And you can't search for something that you don't know if it even exists or how is it called.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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How materials behave depends on the interactions between countless atoms. What did one atom say to the other atom?
I'll start:
I've got my ion you
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The names Bond.....Covalent Bond.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The second one replied: I get a charge out of you.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What did one atom say to the other atom?
Want to share electrons?
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"I lost an electron."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Never trust an atom, they make up everything.
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They are a little quarky that way.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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How do you really feel about superposition ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Office Scripts is an automation feature-set in Excel for the web that allows users with all levels of programming experience to automate their repetitive workflows. You were expecting VBA#?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: users with all levels of programming experience to automate their repetitive workflows.
Read as, "more nightmares for the IT department to maintain."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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