Code Quotes

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

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

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.

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

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Good code is its own best documentation.

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

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.