Code Quotes

• 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
  • Law
  • Independent
  • Software

• 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
  • Conversation
  • Intelligence
  • Resistance

• 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
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Sentences

• In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Surrender
  • Code

• 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?

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Hate
  • Jew
  • Paranoid

• 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.

  

  Chester Nez
  • Japanese
  • Hardest
  • Languages

• Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

  

  Kathy Sierra
  • Live
  • Maintain
  • Maniac

• 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
  • Trouble
  • System
  • Developing

• Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Code
  • Ethical
  • Socratic

• Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Weight
  • Aircraft
  • Programming progress

• 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
  • Writing
  • Team
  • Technology

• We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Code
  • Ibm

• 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
  • Information
  • Return
  • Code

• 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
  • Film
  • Loss
  • Term

• Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

  

  Auren Hoffman
  • Resolution
  • Draw
  • Code

• Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Worrying
  • Examination
  • Obsessive

• Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Honor
  • Break
  • Code

• Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

  

  David Parnas
  • Easier
  • Mathematical
  • Requirements

• Good code is its own best documentation.

  

  Steve McConnell
  • Good
  • Code
  • Documentation

• 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
  • Government
  • Nation
  • Reich

• I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

  

  Paul Buchheit
  • Writing
  • Product
  • Code

• Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Silence
  • Anger
  • Code

• The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Sometimes
  • Break
  • Morality

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