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Quotes About Code

Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.
~ Rick Riordan
Your DNA is not you. It is more like the basic instructions for you. DNA is to a person as a blueprint is to a house.
~ Katha Pollitt
because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
They conversed at such moments in a speech that was like a code, making me wonder if this was on account of my presence in the room, but I quickly understood it had simply to do with their familiarity with each other's lives, and that there was no intention to exclude my understanding.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
distance, a holistic concept if ever there was one. (Incidentally, there is an excellent book on the new physics—Heinz Pagels's The Cosmic Code21—which is the only book I can unreservedly recommend on the topic.
~ Ken Wilber
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.
~ Michael C Dawson
if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code
~ Woodrow Wilson
Günümüzde kullan?lan ?ifre (cifir) sistemi Karmatîlerin eseridir. Kaynaklar, ?ifre ile haberle?meyi tarihte ilk kulanan ki?inin, Karmatîli?in liderlerinden biri olan Abdullah bin Meymûn el Kaddâh kod adl? ki?i oldu?unu biliyor.
~ Ya?ar Nuri Öztürk
Günümüzde kullan?lan ?ifre (cifir) sistemi Karmatîlerin eseridir.
~ Ya?ar Nuri Öztürk
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
~ David Pearce
the move toward object-oriented programming, where applications could be fashioned out of small, predefined blocks of code, was a lot like building with LEGO.
~ David Robertson
Ruthless and Continuous Testing Many developers test gently, subconsciously knowing where the code will break and avoiding the weak spots. Pragmatic Programmers are different. We are driven to find our bugs now, so we don't have to endure the shame of others finding our bugs later.
~ David Thomas
Don't try to refactor and add functionality at the same time.
~ David Thomas
Any life, & any life's work, is a hidden journey, a secret code, deciphered in fits & starts. The details only given truth by the whole, & the whole dependent on the details." "...having the powerful characteristics of captaincy or leadership of any form is almost always an outward sign of a person inhabiting their physical body & the deeper elements of their own nature.
~ David Whyte
Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee." That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.
~ David Wong
THE SAFE HOUSE" was our code name for Denny's.
~ David Wong
I wore no jewels save the pendant Brisbane had given me with its secret code—the code that had given me my first inkling that he loved me. It had not been so very long since he had given it to me, a year only; twelve leaves of the calendar torn away, a few dozen weeks from then to now. But how much change that year had wrought!
~ Deanna Raybourn
The Holy Bible is the written code of holy teachings.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
About the other one, which for the moment bears the code name Dedale 39, we know only what Ravel is willing to say about it one day to Manuael De Falla: it was supposed to be an airplane in the key of C.
~ Jean Echenoz
After the love, I went back on the other side of my border. Back to the territory where I have my own rules, my own laws, my own code, and my own stupid obsessions. The territory where I lose my way, and where I lost the women who ventured onto
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
After the love, I went back on the other side of my border. Back to the territory where I have my own rules, my own laws, my own code, and my own stupid obsessions. The territory where I lose my way, and where I lost the women who ventured onto it.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
It was important therefore to avoid themes that were difficult or too intellectual, not to shock the spectator's morals by overly bold ideas, and to respect a complex code of conventions that every author, producer and director had to be familiar with, under threat of seeing himself lambasted by the countless leagues in defence of morality – or still worse, confronted by a public boycott.
~ Jean-Michel Palmier
I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments
~ Jeff Atwood