Code Quotes

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frédéric Bastiat)
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. View quote
Donald Knuth
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. View quote
Larry Wall
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. View quote
William O. Douglas
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? View quote
Douglas Coupland
If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. View quote
Malcolm Bradbury
My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters." View quote
Thomas Pynchon
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. View quote
Richard Stallman
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. View quote
Martin Fowler
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. (Brian Kernighan)
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. View quote
Randall Munroe
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today. View quote
Charlton Heston
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. View quote
Bob Ney
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! View quote
Harold H. Greene
Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. View quote
Wietse Venema
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times. View quote
Antonin Scalia
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although-to the more imaginative at least-a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves. (Alain de Botton)
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid. View quote
Francis Crick
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it. View quote
Francis Crick
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. View quote
Francis Crick
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. View quote
Ayn Rand