Code Quotes
864 quotes by 661 authors
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We…
— Rose Macaulay
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We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.
— Roland Barthes
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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
— Max Born
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Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he…
— Rita Rudner
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A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times…
— Bill Gates
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
— Larry Wall
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It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than…
— Lewis Thomas
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Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that…
— Sigmund Freud
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical…
— Harry S. Truman
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The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them…
— Isaac Asimov
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
— Martin Fowler
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In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that will give our…
— Delbert L. Stapley
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Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have…
— Malala Yousafzai
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