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Quotes About Code

When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it.
~ Ellen Ullman
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
~ Peter Fenton
The surfers' code is that you surf your wave and let the world discuss it as you move on to the next one.
~ Garrett McNamara
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
~ Sam Brownback
I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
~ Ian Mckellen
I started out with machine code and assembly language.
~ Charles Petzold
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
~ James Surowiecki
You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.
~ Matt Mullenweg
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.
~ Ellen Ullman
Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code.
~ Ellen Ullman
You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing.
~ John Layfield
The tax code is just too big.
~ Matt Rosendale
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.
~ Vera Rubin
You know what's not around anymore? There's no code anymore. There's no loyalty.
~ Matt Serra
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
~ Gene Luen Yang
A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
~ Charles Petzold
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
~ Jean Piaget
The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything from social media feeds to search engines and satellite navigation to music recommendation systems.
~ Hannah Fry
Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.' 
~ Richard A. Knaak
We say—say 'Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.
~ Richard A. Knaak
So saved are all those who enable themselves to believe, and therefore was the military mind called a juvenile mind. It was constant; it observed a code of honor in a world where any element of devotion to a rationale summoned scorn but the world itself knew itself was sick.
~ Richard Condon
The DNA molecule is shaped like a twisted ladder, and the rungs of the ladder—the nucleotides—can hold vast amounts of information, the code of life. A gene is a short stretch of DNA, typically about a thousand letters long, that holds the recipe for a protein or a group of related proteins. The total assemblage of an organism's genetic code—its full complement of DNA, comprising all its genes—is the organism's genome.
~ Richard Preston
Sam's phone buzzed. She fished it out of her pocket, checked the screen, and cursed. I have to go. You just got here. Valkyrie business. Possible code three-eight-one: heroic death in progress. You're making that up. I'm not. So...what, somebody thinks they're about to die and they text you 'Going down! Need Valkyrie ASAP!' followed by a bunch of sad-face emojis?
~ Rick Riordan