Code Quotes
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
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... beer results in ideas, which results in new code.
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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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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.
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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.
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Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.
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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.
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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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Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
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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.
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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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.
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Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.
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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.
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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
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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.
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If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
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It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
