Code Quotes

“It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Hey, check this weirdo out." Hi was inspecting a bust on the mantel. "This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you want to bet he owned slaves?"

Scowling to match the carving's expression, Hi spoke in a gravelly voice. "In my day, we ate the poor people. We had a giant outdoor grill, and we cooked up peasant steaks every Sunday."”
― Kathy Reichs, Code

“So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”
“Awesome.”
“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

“At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.”
― Clotaire Rapaille, The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do

“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.”
― Charles Stross, Halting State

“If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.”
― Marc Goodman, Future Crimes

“A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Complete Wreck

“A man got to have a code. - Omar Little”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys

“Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'

There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?”
― D.J. Stutley

“But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.”
― Danielle Trussoni, Angelology

“There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.”
― H.W. Charles

“Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”
― Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies

“maybe in some cases, people see us fall and crack, see us as a failure. We gotta live with it, i live by our own code we shouldn't be ashamed if we fall, for every fall we get up and pick up ourselves a larger chance we win the next time because we learned.”
― jinnuljr.

“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”
― Dijkstra

“Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.”
― Charles Lee, The Way To Dawn

“How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.”
― Ritesh Shrivastav

“Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.”
― David Chiles

“The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.”
― Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife

“See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.”
― Robert B. Parker