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Quotes About Codes

And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints.
~ Wallace Stegner
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed, and betray others.
~ Wallace Stegner
Como eu disse, semelhantes exemplos não adiantariam nada. Onde o trabalho científico é mantido sob a jurisdição da moralidade, não é guiado pelos fatos — mas pelos códigos morais. (...) Esse tipo de "ciência objetiva" é uma das mós presas ao pescoço de uma humanidade que se está afogando.
~ Wilhelm Reich
The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is an enlightened democracy. This contented the devils, and Jurgen had learned long ago never to fall out with either of these codes, without which, as the devils were fond of observing, Hell would not be what it is.
~ James Branch Cabell
I find it so helpful," continued Lymond, "when some of my gentlemen have well-defined codes of conduct. It makes them more predictable.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
~ Aimee Bender
Les murs s'effritent : l'actualité force les portes du temple, la liberté des Modernes s'invite dans les cours de récréation et des salles de classe, le présent ne s'oublie jamais, les envies de la vie envahissant l'institution, la société, avec ses codes, ses modes, ses marques, ses emblèmes, ses objets fétiches, ses signes d'appartenance et de reconnaissance, déferle à l'école. (p49)
~ Alain Finkielkraut
Philip Langdon's A Better Place to Live is a painstaking examination of how to "retrofit" American suburbs and when we come to the necessary matter of re-writing the building and zoning codes, this book should be one of the primers.
~ Ray Oldenburg
The Good Book is the result of massive simulations of whole societies—what happens when billions of individual people follow various codes of conduct. It's simple: if most people use the rules in the Book most of the time, a pretty much utopian society emerges spontaneously on the macro level.
~ Karl Schroeder
In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.
~ C.S. Friedman
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
~ Lord Byron
I understand that flamenco has very specific rules and codes, and there's the weight of tradition, so I can understand when people do not enjoy something that is more heterodox.
~ Rosalia
they should consent to be pleased in spite of that most dreadful enemy to our pleasures, our own pre-established codes of decision.
~ William Wordsworth
One of the prices we pay in the segregation of education by age is the self-referential reality that each class year and generation makes for itself. There is nothing more conservative and repressive in this world than the peer pressure of teenagers determined to enforce the unwritten codes of their world.
~ David Whyte
My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.
~ David Wong
Lydia's English is a help, but there are many different languages in el norte. There are codes Lydia hasn't yet learned to decipher, subtle differences between words that mean almost, but not quite the same thing: migrant, immigrant, illegal alien. She learns that there are flags that people use here, and those flags may be a warning or a welcome. She is learning.
~ Jeanine Cummins
There's even a feature on my website where you can translate messages into codes, so whenever I have any big news it goes out in code first so the diehard fans are the first to know.
~ Nina Nesbitt
Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Whatever the correct answer, the Sungir children are among the best pieces of evidence that 30,000 years ago Sapiens could invent sociopolitical codes that went far beyond the dictates of our DNA
~ Yuval Noah Harari
All social mammals from chimpanzees to rats have ethical codes that limit behavior like theft and murder.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
There's been criticism of some college codes of conduct for not giving the accused person a fair opportunity to be heard. That's one of the basic tenets of our system, as you know: everyone deserves a fair hearing.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Darryl likes codes," Skylar explained. "A few weeks ago, I asked him what someone might hypothetically need to break into a supercomputer. He hypothetically made me this.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Artemis smiled grimly. And for a moment, he felt like his old, conniving self, before Holly and his mother had introduced him to their pesky moral codes.
~ Eoin Colfer