Quotes About Code

But you'd need the key from which the code was assembled. The master document. Without it, there's little to no chance of breaking a cipher. That's why they're so effective.

I kept the poems in the tower with my hoarded documents of murders. I was constructing my own house of conscience with the transgressions of conscience on exhibit. I found myself poring over the verses for days and nights trying to break their code.

One indication that a routine needs to be broken out of another routine is deep nesting of an inner loop or a conditional. Reduce the containing routine's complexity by pulling the nested part out and putting it into its own routine.

Avoid duplicate code. Undoubtedly the most popular reason for creating a routine is to avoid duplicate code. Indeed, creation of similar code in two routines implies an error in decomposition. Pull the duplicate code from both routines, put a generic version of the common code into a base class, and then move the two specialized routines into subclasses.

There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse.

the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.

code reading detected about 80 percent more faults per hour than testing

If the pirate articles were clear about anything, it was that the act of dividing up the booty was as close to a sacrament as anything else in the code.

Words are just bits of information, but language is the full code.

People who live by the same code are rendered mutually predictable to one another. They act in keeping with each other's expectations and desires. They can cooperate. They can even compete peacefully, because everyone knows what to expect from everyone else. A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone—in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others.

Hmm. I'm tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.

A true knight has a strict code of chivalry by which he lives his life: He cannot refuse a challenge and he always keeps his word. I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

My thoughts were still careening, still trying to make sense of Roger's strange and cryptic e-mail. If you get this, that means they finally succeeded, he'd written. So he was expecting to be killed. I've taken precautions to protect you and Gabe, he'd said. The means to hold them off. What could that be? Would Lauren know? And what was that bizarre postscript—Please say good-bye to the librarian—supposed to mean? A code, surely, but what?

Then Bramblestar spoke, his voice quiet, but full of menace. "I am your leader. My word is the code.

Hollyleaf was Clanless, codeless. She could be a rogue, even a kittypet. There was no way Hollyleaf could let Ashfur tell the four Clans about Squirrelflight's confession. She and her littermates would be driven out! Everything they had done up till now, all their loyalty to the warrior code, would count for nothing.

If it's on WindClan territory it becomes our prey!" Tornear snapped. "Squirrels have always been ThunderClan prey!" Dustpelt stopped pacing and let the fur stand up on his neck. "Is that part of the warrior code?" sneered Tornear. He took a step forward, his eyes glittering.

Rules That Did Not Become Part of the Code: Leafpool Speaks N

You want to know what it's like to be a Clan cat, don't you? About the code that binds us and gives us the courage to survive, about the Gatherings, where we meet in peace for the flicker of a full moon to share tongues and wisdom and news. And the battles—oh, yes, the battles. I can see from the way your eyes gleam that this is what interests you most: the blood-soaked history of the four Clans, the fighting skills passed from mentor to apprentice.

For as long as I live, I will honor the warrior code and not train another kit who should still be at his mother's belly. Go now, little one, and walk with warriors.

but he couldn't get rid of the niggling doubt that his nephew would ever truly understand the warrior code.

Because of this, some cats always questioned her loyalty to the warrior code—though never within earshot of Graystripe.

Have they given up the warrior code?" Hollypaw's breath was coming in fast gulps. They've given up more than the code. Jaypaw glanced at the sky. "Is

Could there be another place for coldhearted cats who had been ready to use the warrior code for their own dark ambitions?

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