Code Quotes · Page 13

“Lots of very funny code is written because people don’t take the time to understand the algorithm.”

— Robert C. Martin

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

— Hadewijch

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn…

— Rob Gronkowski

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

— Dawn Olivieri

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

— Jim Ramstad

“Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." Anon.”

— Gerald M. Kilby

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house…

— Cathy Guisewite

I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto,…

— Nicole Byer

Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I…

— Mike Rinder

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything…

— John Steinbeck

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to…

— Sydney Brenner

[Code Black] doesn't look like any other CBS show... and I don't mean that as any sort of judgment. It's just unbelievably…

— Rob Lowe

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of…

— John Carmack

The problem Philip Morris had with electronic cigarettes since the beginning of development was the satisfaction of the smoker. Because the taste…

— Andre Calantzopoulos

I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and…

— Robin Givhan

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…

— Ayn Rand

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology…

— Timothy Leary

Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now…

— Terence McKenna

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles…

— Joel Kinnaman

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are…

— Donna Murphy

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

— Sam Altman

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things…

— Tamora Pierce

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

— Brandon Sanderson

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

— Larry Constantine

“A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!”

— Tracey Bond

“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.”

— Charles Stross

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

— Rob Portman

Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.

— Alex Padilla

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...

— Barbara Tuchman

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

— Hillary Clinton

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

— Stephen Bier, Jr

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

— Tom Frieden

“The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything. (attrib: E. Tancarville)”

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

“Inna Map Mapped A Key, Inna Sage Saged A Gift, Inna Whorl Turn Ring A Portal Rifts A Vortex...”

— Jonathan Roy Mckinney

“People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others.”

— Dean Koontz