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Quotes About Code

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
~ Luc de Clapiers
There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It's marked as an object," Wu said. In computer terminology, an "object" was a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way you might move a chair in a room.
~ Michael Crichton
A programmer brought in from the outside to fix a bug in the code needed to determine quickly how it worked. With Lance's code this was impossible. When
~ Michael Lewis
Every manager of a Wall Street tech group likes to have people believe that his guys are geniuses. Russians, whatever. His whole persona among his peers is that what he and his team do can't be replicated. When people find out that ninety-five percent of their code is open source, it kills that perception.
~ Michael Lewis
In 1942 the Germans sent a spy called Eppler into Cairo before the battle of El Alamein. He used a copy of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca as a code book to send messages back to Rommel on troop movements. Listen, the book became bedside reading with British Intelligence. Even I read it.
~ Michael Ondaatje
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
~ George Steiner
Each one carries a copy of the complete genetic code—the instruction manual for your body—so it knows not only how to do its job but every other job in the body.
~ Bill Bryson
Not until 1902, at an early meeting of the International Congress of Zoology, did naturalists begin at last to show a spirit of compromise and adopt a universal code. Taxonomy
~ Bill Bryson
The number of errors in code correlates strongly with the amount of code and the complexity of the code.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Probably, your first reaction is but don't do that, and I agree. However, such code does get written, so it is worth knowing how it is implemented.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Great players are determined by their talent, desire and willingness to play by the code.
~ Blair Singer
Having a Code of Honor doesn't mean that everyone on the team is happy 100 percent of the time. Sometimes things get messy.
~ Blair Singer
Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power
~ Blue Balliett
It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!
~ Brad Miner
Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.
~ Brad Miner
What had been the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 became the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which it still is today.
~ T.R. Reid
Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai, --the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
~ Erno Rubik
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
~ Harold H. Greene
We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.
~ Bill Flores
The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence" as that ultimately privileged code into which the other sequences are to be translated. Rather, for Marxism the emergence of the economic, the coming into view of the infrastructure itself, is simply the sign of the approach of the concrete.
~ Fredric Jameson
Can't you just relax," she asked him, "just for a little while?" "The rules—" "Everyone else—" "I cannot be everyone else!" Dalinar said, more sharply than he intended. "If I ignore our code and ethics, what am I, Navani? The other highprinces and lighteyes deserve recrimination for what they do, and I have let them know it. If I abandon my principles, then I become something far worse than they. A hypocrite!
~ Brandon Sanderson