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Quotes About Code

For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness
~ Chris Matthews
the purpose of the finally block is to contain cleanup code that should always be executed, the compiler will flag an error if you place a return statement inside a finally block. An
~ Christian Nagel
once spoke about the genetics of ancestry with a Holocaust historian who had hunted some of the last surviving Nazis in the 1990s. When I told him that little letters in our genetic code might testify to the ethnicity of our parents and grandparents, he said, "The Nazis would have loved this." They would certainly have seized upon the idea, but in the end the full picture would have let them down just as badly as all the other dubious measures of race they tried to develop.
~ Christine Kenneally
She's sweet" means Asperger's. "She's outdoorsy" means lesbian. "Hmm" is Southern Lady code for: I don't agree with you but am polite enough not to rub your nose in your ignorance. "Nice talking with you" is code for: Party's over, now scoot.
~ Helen Ellis
Oaths sworn to the Kami show that the Kami were increasingly perceived as requiring people to conform to a moral code. The Great Purification Prayer was fully loosed from its original moorings in annual jingi rites. It came to be used in shortened form for all manner of personal, individual, and private devotional purposes.
~ Helen Hardacre
As it is he hears voices without form; they sing and sing, as they have from the beginning and will continue until the end. Chad borrows their melodies: That's the music part of the songs he wrotes.For words Ched uses rhymes from our village, the kind that nobody pays attention to anymore because they advocate living by a code that will surely make you one of life's losers.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
This is the Government Educational Service. Your son, Richard M. Jordan, Classification 600-115, has completed the Government examination. We regret to inform you that his intelligence quotient has exceeded the Government regulation, according to Rule 84, Section 5, of the New Code.
~ Henry Slesar
the "API call" metaphor inevitably exposes the server's implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.
~ Leonard Richardson
A samurai never worries about losing his life. He worries about losing his honour. Being shamed is far worse than losing your life. A samurai is always ready to die - for his lord, for his honour. That's the samurai way
~ Lesley Downer
There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.
~ lessig lawrence iii
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.
~ letterman david iii
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
~ Michael Hayden
In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.
~ Daniel Lyons
I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.
~ Lindsey Graham
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
~ Alan Patricof
The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.
~ Jasper Fforde
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
~ Barry Hannah
Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.
~ Unknown
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
~ Eric Maisel
We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
~ Erik Paulsen
There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
~ Adeo Ressi
My whole life in the streets, I was taught not to answer questions and just keep my mouth shut.
~ Giggs