Code Quotes
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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.
Capers Jones -
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Wietse Venema
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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.
Dan Bern -
Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.
Kathy Sierra -
When writing code, it’s often the case that you end up computing a value that the calling function doesn’t currently need. Later, however, this value may be important when the code is called in a different situation. In this situation, you should obey the law of useful return: A procedure should return all the potentially useful information it computed.
Alexander Stepanov -
The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavouring to develop them.
Adolf Hitler -
... beer results in ideas, which results in new code.
Theo de Raadt -
Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.
Auren Hoffman
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Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
Darl McBride -
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
Nick Szabo -
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
David Parnas -
My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.
Brad Fitzpatrick -
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
Catherynne M. Valente -
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
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It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
Elizabeth Wein -
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Mitchell Baker -
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
Billy Joel -
A system composed of 100,000 lines of C++ is not be sneezed at, but we don't have that much trouble developing 100,000 lines of COBOL today. The real test of OOP will come when systems of 1 to 10 million lines of code are developed.
Edward Yourdon -
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
Mike Figgis -
There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.
Cesar Pelli
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If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
Terence McKenna -
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
Seth Godin -
Good code is its own best documentation.
Steve McConnell -
Elements (lines of code) in a coincidentally-cohesive module have no relationship. Typically occurs as the result of modularizing existing code, to separate out redundant code.
Edward Yourdon