Code Quotes
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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.
Bill Gates
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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
Thomas Nagel
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Code writers, they are my idols.
will.i.am
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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.
Cesar Pelli
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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.
Stephen Fry
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Good code is its own best documentation.
Steve McConnell
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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
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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.
Brad Fitzpatrick
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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.
Esther Perel
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If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
Terence McKenna
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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.
Bill Gates
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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.
Mike Ferguson
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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.
Steve McConnell
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik