Code Quotes

• Good code is its own best documentation.

  

  Steve McConnell
  • Good
  • Code
  • Documentation

• Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  

  Wietse Venema
  • Business
  • Effort
  • Exists

• 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
  • Fail
  • Crash
  • Basic Rule

• Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Different
  • Film
  • Matter

• Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Claims
  • Heritage
  • Code

• It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

  

  Steve McConnell
  • Code
  • Figure Out
  • Mysteries

• 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

• 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

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Historical
  • Accounts
  • Bases

• If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Way
  • Hacked

• Code writers, they are my idols.

  

  will.i.am
  • Code
  • Idols

• 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
  • Building
  • Attributes
  • Departure

• But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Read
  • Code
  • Invented

• 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.

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • Code
  • Pilots
  • Beacons

• The cost of taxpayer compliance with the tax code is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget

  

  Charles O. Rossotti
  • Cost
  • Billions
  • Compliance

• 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.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Software
  • Code

• Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Victory
  • Code

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