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• Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

  Brian Kernighan

  Statistics, Trivia, Efficiency

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Practice, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Compassion, Mind

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• The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

  Wes Jackson

  Creating, Agriculture, Desire

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.22, Counterpoint

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• Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

  Bob Ney

  Reading, Writing, Names

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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.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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

  Wietse Venema

  Business, Effort, Maintenance

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• Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

  Wietse Venema

  Matter, Functionality

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• As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

  Wietse Venema

  Agents, Lines, Mail

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• Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

  Linda Pastan

  Eye, Broken, Way

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  Jack Anderson

  Checks, Boxes, Communicate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

  Marion Barry

  Guy, Underworld, Unwritten

  Washington Express, January 4, 2006.

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• The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

  John T. Flynn

  America, Association, Nra

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• These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Etc, Nra

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

  George Steiner

  Men, Perception, Language

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sin, Behavior, Knowing God

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• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, Hypocrisy

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• Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

  Ben Horowitz

  Emotional, Careers, Decision

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• But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Numbers, Looks, World

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• Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Thinking, Progress

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