Code Quotes
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
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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.
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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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Good code is its own best documentation.
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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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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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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.
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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.
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Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
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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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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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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.
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
