Coding Quotes

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
No reference is truly direct-every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatic about [the go to statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a simple trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. View quote
Fernando J. Corbató
I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving. View quote
Sylvia Day
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. View quote
Jesse James Garrett
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. View quote
Walter Lang
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. View quote
Francis Crick
Is it coding - or code breaking? Is it like Deborah's job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can't sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes. View quote
Agatha Christie
What makes learning possible is that the coding imposed by the mother tongue corresponds to a possible mode of perception and interpretation of the environment. A green car can be analysed experientially as carness qualified by greenness, if that is the way the system works. View quote
Michael Halliday
Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants. (Saul Gorn)
While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work. View quote
Mitchel Resnick
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more. View quote
Thomas Friedman
One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about. View quote
Michael Gove
With the appearance of the human, the coding process of life burst beyond the DNA molecule and began carving its information in stone! View quote
Brian Swimme
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. View quote
Richard Powers
Although in practice innovative coding is hard to disentangle from innovative theorizing, the latter, over time, has a far greater impact than the former on how we perceive and interpret the world. View quote
Max Boisot
The unit of coding is the most basic segment, or element, of the raw data or information that can be assessed in a meaningful way regarding the phenomenon. View quote
Richard Boyatzis
When the sample size is small or the study is of one organization, descriptive use of the thematic coding is desirable. View quote
Richard Boyatzis
The coding system of the KJV is undeniable under the mathematical laws of probability. It conceals two basic precepts of the ancient Mystery schools and religions. By meticulous study of nature and its geometry, cycles, spacings, etc., the philosophers postulated a force and intelligence which they called the grand mathematician-geometrician of the universe. The second precept teaches that the words of men can forever be twisted, interpreted and translated, but the relationship of number is constant forever. These are the reasons why the KJV is a number code. (David Lane (white nationalist))
What Bacon was telling us is that the bible has nothing to do with what is perceived as "Christianity." As I have been telling you for years, the real message for those of intellect and understanding is hidden in the secret coding system. The secret teachings, persecuted by tyrants of church and state, were hidden under their noses as the Hermetic Philosophers have done for all the thousands of years since they supervised the building of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. View quote
David Lane (white nationalist)
If you don't do something now, this freedom that you built, that you spend your life coding, this freedom will be taken away. Either by those who see you as a threat, who then invoke the system of law we call patents, or by those who take advantage of the extraordinary expansion of control that the law of copyright now gives them over innovation. Either of these two changes through law will produce a world where your freedom has been taken away. And, If you can't fight for your freedom . . . you don't deserve it. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Maybe altruism is our most primitive attribute out of reach, beyond our control. Or perhaps it is immediately at hand, waiting to be released, disguised now, in our kind of civilization as affection or friendship or attachment. I can't see why it should be unreasonable for all human beings to have strands of DNA coiled up in chromosomes, coding out instincts for usefulness and helpfulness. Usefulness may turn out to be the hardest test of fitness for survival, more important than aggression, more effective, in the long run, than grabbiness. View quote
Lewis Thomas