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Quotes About Code

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
~ Victor Hugo
In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle.
~ Victor Hugo
From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale.
~ Kristin Hannah
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
~ Cassandra Clare
I don't see how Clary is something we have in common,' Simon said, although he did. Nevertheless, this wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have with Jace now, or, in fact, ever. Wasn't there some sort of manly code that precluded discussions like this--discussions about feelings ?
~ Cassandra Clare
You won't cut my son's throat,' said the Unseelie King, gazing down at Julian with a look of disdain. 'You're a Shadowhunter. You have a code of honor.' 'You're thinking of Shadowhunters the way they used to be,' said Julian. 'I came of age in the Dark War. I was baptized in blood and fire.
~ Cassandra Clare
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one's own code.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
These actions are often called callbacks because some code gets called back when a user action occurs.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
I was starting to grasp the mysteries of the city in which we had been moving for many hours now. It was as if I sensed its hidden spaces, its secret lives, the windows where people's silhouettes passed for a moment and disappeared forever. I glimpsed, in the broken lines of those streets, the hidden code of my present life and above all my future one.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
Thus, the vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounce it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
~ Author Unknown
Small tests lead to code quality. Medium and large tests lead to product quality.
~ James A. Whittaker
DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level—an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
~ James Gleick
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
~ George Vecsey
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
~ Dee Hock
I am in favor of reforming our tax code. It's over-burdensome. It's complex. It's unfair. But the one thing that we have to do is make sure that all Americans receive a tax cut.
~ Dan Donovan
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
~ Francis Crick
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
~ Abhinav Bindra
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
~ Jamie Zawinski
as far as he can on the ice. Or rm TFMW e h length of a conversation between two pards don't tell nothin' about the length of the friendship. Steriing loyalty to friends is required by the code of life. Ask no more and give no less
~ Texas Bix Bender
If you're an L.C.N. guy, you don't have facial hair and you don't have long hair. You have to be neat all the time. It's the rule.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
~ Samuel Freeman Miller
The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.
~ Chuck Palahniuk