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Quotes About Code

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~ Dan Gutman
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code.
~ Unknown
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
~ Dan Gilroy
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
~ Sheri Fink
The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.
~ Brad Thor
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
~ Randall Munroe
I think people don't realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature, and so even if the virtual machine is inefficient, the cryptographic signature is still going to dominate.
~ Vitalik Buterin
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
~ E. Stanley Jones
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
~ Wendy Long
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
~ E. Stanley Jones
While talking on the cube to them, I made a casual gesture, touching middle finger to cheekbone, that used to be phone code: 'Disregard this; someone may be listening.' Most of them returned the gesture.
~ Joe Haldeman
He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of effortless superiority whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.
~ John Cleese
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.
~ Tony Hoare
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
Destiny had a 518 area code..who knew." - Ehlena
~ J.R. Ward
It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology.
~ Don DeLillo
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
~ Donald Knuth
If you want J. J. and I to take you through the Marketing Made Simple Checklist in video format, visit BusinessMadeSimple.com and register for our very inexpensive online platform. Use the code "Marketing" to get a buy-one-gift-one offer, allowing you and your entire team to use the platform for half the cost.
~ Donald Miller
Extinction wipes out, point by point, the clues to the code of existence; extirpation is the great, sucking retreat of the tide of life.
~ Unknown
A funny thing about code is that when left alone, it gets moldy and breaks of its own accord. This is true of product code and test code. A large part of maintenance engineering is about monitoring quality, not looking for new issues.
~ James A. Whittaker
Test code is only useful in the context of being executable in a way that accelerates development and doesn't slow it down. Thus, it has to be integrated into the actual development process in a way that makes it part of development and not separate from it. Functional code never exists in a vacuum. Neither should test code.
~ James A. Whittaker
What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color to shift among signals? If he grasped deeply this language of symbols, grasped it beneath the surface, he could course through the currents of authority as they coursed through him like heat or the tremble of cold.
~ Lydia Millet
As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as known that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216
~ Unknown