Quotes About Code

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Don't go playing hero," he said. "Just find out if he's there. Something gets out of hand, you get out of there pronto." "Okay." "And we should have a code word. Something you say if you need me." Esperanza nodded, feigning seriousness. "If I say the words premature ejaculation, it means I want you to come.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

The famous peace symbol, it is often forgotten, originally came from the semaphore code for N–D, meaning nuclear disarmament.)

like Turing and the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, the Navajo were ignored for decades. Eventually, in 1968, the Navajo code was declassified, and the following year the code talkers held their first reunion.

Enigma was considered invulnerable, until the Poles revealed its weaknesses.

If there is such a thing as fate, it's not that life is already written and we're simply unwitting figures in lines of spiritual code–it's that we are at the mercy of things imposed on us in childhood. — Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Do not listen to her, Alaric said. She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of you will understand, because you are siblings, to call the police on your cell phone. But if you do that, I will kill you and dispose of your body in a place where no one will find it. The river, I think. Your doorman is so stupid, he won't notice if I leave this building carrying a body in a rolled-up carpet.

Consumption is not a passion for substances but a passion for the code

What most distinguishes Confucius from other founders is that he inculcated a strict code of ethics, which has been respected ever since, but associated with very little religious dogma, which gave place to complete theological scepticism in the countless generations of Chinese literati who revered his memory and administered the Empire.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.

RESISTANCE NEVER SLEEPS Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.