Code Quotes · Page 12

“There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse.”

— Steve McConnell

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

— Ken Thompson

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

— Amari Cooper

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

— Max Black

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

— Anonymous

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

— Sun Ra

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

— Juan Enriquez

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a…

— Philip Yancey

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…

— Roland Barthes

President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many…

— Jay Leno

Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have…

— Joni Ernst

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really…

— Jim Jarmusch

Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate…

— Jill Soloway

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about…

— Sonia Rykiel

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better…

— Eoin Colfer

I fully respect people whose personal religious or moral code has God giving, and taking, life. But there are moral and responsible…

— Margo MacDonald

The important thing for me is that one accepts that one is irretrievably flawed and as you say, takes responsibility for those…

— Andre Alexis

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Our father was a great warrior. Our mother is proud and strong. They shared only one flaw: that their only loyalty was…

— Erin Hunter

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he…

— Ayn Rand

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a…

— Frank McCourt

“To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them…

— Peter Croft

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was…

— Ellen Glasgow

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief…

— Mel Gibson

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

— John Quincy Adams

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

— Kenneth Grahame

I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

— Jimmy Smits

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't…

— Jerry Weintraub

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

— Jeanette Winterson

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.

— Thomas Pynchon

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if…

— Jessica Savitch

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

— Erik Paulsen

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

— Jerry Weller

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

— Robert W. Service

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

— Mindy Kaling

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

— Brian Kernighan

Telling someone I had a dream about you is code for: I had a dream we f*cked and now I want to.

— Muniir Zero

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

— Julius Wellhausen

I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’

— Rives