Code Quotes - Page 3

• If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?

  Glenn Beck

  Mistake, People, Common Sense

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Kings, Acting, Directors

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• Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Silence, Form

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”, p.11, Ambrose Bierce

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• Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Code Quality, Programming, Software Engineering

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• I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

  Marissa Mayer

  People, Google, Use

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• "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Legacy, Alternatives

  "Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++". Book by Mark Wilcox, 2009.

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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Jerry Weller

  Tolls, Information, Used

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Angel

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

  Khushwant Singh

  Men, Triumph, Doe

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

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• An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

  James Gosling

  Code Quality, Programming, Software Engineering

  "A Conversation with James Gosling". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. Jun 9, 2003.

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• It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

  Conan O'Brien

  Long, Pages, Sticks

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• A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

  Martin Fowler

  Engineering, Lines, Software

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• Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole].

  Tony Kornheiser

  Years, Car, People

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• There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

  Stuart Pearce

  Believe, I Believe, Should

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• Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

  Erik Naggum

  Thinking, Errors, Etc

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• We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

  Rick Renzi

  War, Native Language, Needs

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• Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Code Quality, Program, Should

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• The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Self, Feminist, Kind

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• I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, America, Hands

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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