Code Quotes - Page 19

• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

  Bill Joy

  Window, Gave Up, Display

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• How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

  Nancy Horan

  Effort, Trying, Behavior

  Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books

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• The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

  Gary Kildall

  Thinking, Profound, Style

  "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

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• The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.

  Alfred Jodl

  Hands, Order, Ideas

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• It's harder to read code than to write it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Harder

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

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• Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

  Joel Spolsky

  Talking, Listening, Mind

  "The StackOverflow Podcast #38" with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, stackoverflow.fogbugz.com. January 22, 2009.

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• What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.

  Joshua Bloch

  Expression, Names, Variables

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• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Stars, Memories, Reality

  "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.

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• There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

  Randy Cohen

  Lying, Fire, Burning

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• To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Life, Islamic

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• The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

  Scott Berkun

  Creativity, Clarity, Bottlenecks

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• Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

  Kristen Ashley

  Lying, Numbers, Doubt

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.30, Rock Chick LLC

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• If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Bob, Said, Certain

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.

  Brian Foote

  Simple, Survival, Fragility

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’

  Rives

  Thinking, Might, Inappropriate

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• One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

  Nicole Kidman

  Mistake, Fall, Trying

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 22, 2016

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• Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Cute, Government, Names

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• The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Stressed, Foundation, Movement

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• If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

  Randall Terry

  Religious, Government, Law

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• The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Together

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• Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Kids, Creative, Want

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• The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

  Douglas McIlroy

  Real, Hero, Writing

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