Code Quotes
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.
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For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
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Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.
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I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
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Code of the Grunt: You ain’t Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.
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Life isn’t all a dream but I’m still in the clouds. Cracked a couple of the codes, time to level up now.
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It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.
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In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
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How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
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The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies is to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.
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All of the 29 Marines that I went in [with], we got together and made a code in our own language. There were over 400 or 500 words that we made up at that time. We memorized them and everything was up here.
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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.
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You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
