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When I evaluate programmers I give effectively three times as much credit for removing a line of code than adding one. Sort of .5 for adding a line, 1.0 for changing a line, and 1.5 for reducing by a line. The principle being that well understood code should converge on the simplest correct solution over time.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code - Ken Thompson

Deleted code is debugged code. — Jeff Sickel

Nice take on the whole "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away" thing!

I wouldn't say I enjoy removing unused code, but I definitely feel like I've accomplished something when I do.