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Quotes About Code

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don't make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
~ Will Patton
As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
~ Juan Enriquez
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
~ Kathleen Battle
The Ten Commandments are a covenant document given to Israel alone; they are not an unchanging moral code for all people in all ages.
~ John G. Reisinger
Since the early days, some of the originators of NLP have developed new models including Design Human Engineering, the New NLP, and NLP New Code.
~ John Grinder
twisted form of Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, and frankly, it's protected many a bad doctor and some true butchers.
~ John J. Nance
The Jedi Order was more than an unpaid police force, more than just an exercise club that was into metaphysics. It was a way of life, based on the Jedi Code—and a lot of rules for living that weren't in the Code, that had been tacked on later. One was that Jedi avoided becoming involved in romantic relationships. Once on the run, Kanan Jarrus had found that rule pretty easy to forget about.
~ John Jackson Miller
The tactic seemed to work, so he stuck to the same theme for the next few days, but there was only so much cryptography he could teach before it started squeezing out everything else.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sneaky manipulative bundle of code.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I had a moment's respect for this wily silce of code.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
~ Ayn Rand
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--or, rather, there aren't any right people.
~ B.F. Skinner
Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.
~ Rick Wilson
The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
~ Ada Yonath
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
~ Roger Ebert
Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
~ Thomas Bangalter
Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like biological organisms, the most adaptive blockchains will be the ones that survive and thrive.
~ Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.
~ Max Keiser
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
~ Richard Stallman
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.
~ Hisham Matar
Our intention is that of a shepherd, but our actions are those of a loving, wise, compassionate leader. If we all act according to this code, we will create an enlightened society.
~ Sakyong Mipham
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
~ Harper Lee