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• Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

  Bob Ney

  Reading, Writing, Names

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• I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  Wietse Venema

  Business, Effort, Maintenance

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• Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

  Wietse Venema

  Matter, Functionality

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

  Wietse Venema

  Agents, Lines, Mail

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

  Linda Pastan

  Eye, Broken, Way

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  Jack Anderson

  Checks, Boxes, Communicate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

  Marion Barry

  Guy, Underworld, Unwritten

  Washington Express, January 4, 2006.

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• The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

  John T. Flynn

  America, Association, Nra

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• These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Etc, Nra

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

  George Steiner

  Men, Perception, Language

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sin, Behavior, Knowing God

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• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, Hypocrisy

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• Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

  Ben Horowitz

  Emotional, Careers, Decision

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• But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Numbers, Looks, World

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• Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Thinking, Progress

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Wish, Lines

  "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.

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• Muslims are not compatible with the Australian way of life because they have a different region code

  Pauline Hanson

  Different, Way, Regions

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• I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Islands, Java

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• We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

  Jon Miller

  Marketing, Lines, Firsts

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• All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

  Frank Shamrock

  Art, Taken, Warrior

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• My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.

  Chester Nez

  Country, Important, Stronger

  "Decoding history: A World War II Navajo Code Talker in his own words". CNN Interview, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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