Code Quotes

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”
― Robert C. Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

“I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“All of life is code, you know.
And those of us who know the code
And how to code, co-create”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Present in body and absent in spirit, he lies back on the couch, shamed by his own… potentials in his soul that will not be subdued. He feels himself inwardly subversive, imagining in his passivity extremes of aggression and desire that must be suppressed. Solution: more work, more money, more drink, more weight, more things, more infotainment.”
― James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling

“One of the most singular characteristics of the art of deciphering is the strong conviction possessed by every person, even moderately acquainted with it, that he is able to construct a cipher which nobody else can decipher. I have also observed that the cleverer the person, the more intimate is his conviction.”
― Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“Inheritance has recently fallen out of favor as a programming design solution in many programming languages because it’s often at risk of sharing more code than necessary. Subclasses shouldn’t always share all characteristics of their parent class but will do so with inheritance. This can make a program’s design less flexible. It also introduces the possibility of calling methods on subclasses that don’t make sense or that cause errors because the methods don’t apply to the subclass. In addition, some languages will only allow a subclass to inherit from one class, further restricting the flexibility of a program’s design.

For these reasons, Rust takes a different approach, using trait objects instead of inheritance.”
― Steve Klabnik, The Rust Programming Language

“Even the tiniest chunk of code, like Coronavirus (COVID-19), may cause a major disruptive impact on the global operating system, something that was suddenly revealed to the public awareness in early 2020.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology

“If you don’t have your code, you got nothing to hold you down. You just drift, any way things blow you.”
― Tana French, The Searcher

“The photographic image is a message without a code.”
― Roland Barthes

“Deregulation is the government code word for facilitating corporate fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“I don’t care’ is code for ‘I do care.’ But to deny the code is in fact ‘code’ for ‘I don’t want to be hurt.’ And in life, no amount of ‘coding’ is going to keep that from happening.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.”
― Paul Graham

“The realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs.”
― Maurice Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer

“The genetic code is universal... there is nothing particularly special about human genes.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee (author), The Gene

“I am an expert on the language of crop circles.”
― Steven Magee

“Solving problems through Logic and Code.”
― Surya Raj

“Quantum physics resembles the deep 'code layer' underlying our physical reality.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

“Vier cijfertjes die hen scheiden van de vrijheid.”
― MJ Arlidge

“STOP APPLYING PATCHES.
RECODE YOURSELF NOW.

24 Dec National Mathematics Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Look out the window of the train: you’re moving, but you can’t remember leaving. Jagged brown crater dwellings run across the landscape, pipes with thick black smoke pouring out. Smoke overflowing, as the buildings themselves are caked with a sort of black tar.
Evening sun peeks over the horizon through rusted steel water towers and other ancient skeletons. Their frames stand fixed, albeit hunched forward, anchored in by the ankles in scrap iron dunes that stretch for miles with frigid desert rats scurrying through as giant shivering Scarabs hover in the sky: wired-in and vigilant, murmuring ancient mantras, overshadowing newer, but desperately cruel partisan inscriptions of code in the soot-stained brick facade.

Look at your superimposed reflection in the window across from your seat and envision subatomic particles acquiring sentience in the vacuum of an Accelerator. All wondering how it is they got there, who it is they presume to be.

Always wondering. Spiraling...really! Always spiraling at breakneck speeds through the vacuum—eternally in doubt. You are suddenly reminded of the words of that great Algorithmist painter, Carlotta Wakefield, 'Mediocre painters portray that which they understand. Fabulous painters: that which they Surmise...'

You wonder if that, too, applies to our constructions of reality, ersatz or otherwise.

(From the short story "Leapfrog")”
― Ashim Shanker, trenches parallax leapfrog

“A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!”
― Tracey Bond

“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness is therefore not in doubt. He thus participates forcefully in that movement of thought, victorious today, that wrests mathematics from its antique philosophical pedestal and represents it to us as a grammar of signs where all that matters is the making explicit of the code.”
― Alain Badiou, Number and Numbers

“Code could do anything. Code could save the world.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, A Night Without Stars

“Once drawn, a sword must taste blood or be forfeit. That was our law, our code, and these were easy kills.”
― Devin Madson, We Ride the Storm

“We are the Swords that hunts so your hands may be clean. We are the Swords that kill so your soul may be light. We are the Swords that die so you may live.”
― Devin Madson, We Ride the Storm

“I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on my own.”
― Deyth Banger, Code

“We all force our true selves into little hashes and show them like passwords. A smile is a hashing function, and a word, and a cry. The cry is not the grief, the word is not the meaning, and smile is not the joy: we cannot run the hash in reverse, we cannot get from the sign to the absolute truth. Maybe the smile is false. Maybe the grief is a lie.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“Every object is a piece of information that always comes with an embedded pair of instructions.”
― Joey Lawsin, Originemology

“knowledge is code, and code is inevitable.”
― ishan ajmeri

“Many of the criminal skills on the Web have emerged from an essential division in the philosophical debate generated by the Internet.

In simple terms the debate is between those, on the one hand, who believe its commercial role is paramount and those, on the other, who argue that it is in the first instance a social and intellectual tool, whose very nature changes the fundamental moral code of mass communication. For the former, any copying of computer ‘code’ (shorthand for the computer language in which software or a program is written) that is not explicitly sanctioned is regarded as a criminal violation. The latter, however, are convinced that by releasing software you are also relinquishing copyright.”
― Misha Glenny, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You