Code Quotes

“When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how to speak. When we gained literacy, we learned not just how to read but how to write. And as we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to use programs but how to make them. In the emerging highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It’s really that simple: Program, or be programmed.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

“Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“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

“I will never turn my back on the ocean: Passion
I will paddle around the impact zone: No short cuts
I will take the drop with commitment: Courage, focus and determination
I will never fight a rip tide: The danger of pride and egotism
I will always paddle back out: Perseverance in the face of challenges
I will watch out for other surfers after a big set: Responsibility
I will know that there will always be another wave: Optimism
I will ride and not paddle into shore: Self-esteem
I will pass on my stoke to a non-surfer: Sharing knowledge and giving back
I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind: Imagination
I will realize that all surfers are joined by one ocean: Empathy
I will honor the sport of kings: Honor and integrity”
― Shaun Tomson, Surfer's Code: Twelve Simple Lessons For Riding Through Life

“The clarity offered by software as metaphor - and the empowerment allegedly offered to us who know software - should make us pause, because software also engenders a sense of profound ignorance. Software is extremely difficult to comprehend. Who really knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? Who completely understands what one’s computer is actually doing at any given moment? Software as a metaphor for metaphor troubles the usual functioning of metaphor, that is, the clarification of an unknown concept through a known one. For, if software illuminates an unknown, it does so through an unknowable (software). This paradox - this drive to grasp what we do not know through what we do not entirely understand… does not undermine, but rather grounds software’s appeal. Its combination of what can be seen and not seen, can be known and no known - it’s separation of interface from algorithm, of software from hardware - makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture. Every use entails an act of faith.”
― Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

“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

“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

“To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....”
― Deyth Banger, Code

“I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

“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