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I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff… — Tom Van Vleck
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it… — Edsger Dijkstra
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress change our tax… — Barack Obama
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger. — Billy Joel
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. — Bob Dylan
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he… — Mike Ferguson
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member… — Dee Hock
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. — Tom Hooper
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective… — Elizabeth Kostova
I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent,… — William Kristol
Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the… — Capers Jones
The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. — Capers Jones
Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.… — Ward Cunningham
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the governmentâ€™s tax code largesse, thatâ€™s… — Jon Stewart
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven
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… — Antonin Scalia
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal… — John Galt

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