Code Quotes

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

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.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

Professionally, I don’t necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won’t be able to have fun and express yourself.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

I'm pretty sure 'ferral cats' is code for 'vampire cougars.

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

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

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.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.