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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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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I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
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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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I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.
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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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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
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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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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
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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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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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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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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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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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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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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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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
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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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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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And nobody knew. The Japanese pulled all of their hair out trying to decipher the code. But it's one of the hardest languages to learn, that's why it was never decoded or deciphered.
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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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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.
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... beer results in ideas, which results in new code.
