Code Quotes - Page 18

• . . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Responsibility, Men, Self

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• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Development, May

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books

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• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

  Russell Means

  School, People, Abhorrent

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, People, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. By contrast, computers double their speed and memories every 18 months. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Memories, Real, Race

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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• We’'ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

  Mitchell Baker

  Broken Heart, People, Foundation

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Sex, Confusion, Moral

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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

  Venkaiah Naidu

  Temples, Rams, Common

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• 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.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Doctors

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Minutes, Etiquette, Polite

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

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Design, Secret

  Conversation with Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, www.tate.org.uk, May 31 - June 1, 2010.

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• Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

  Eben Moglen

  Risk, Want, Share

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• The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Art, Writing, Discovery

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.8, Beard Books

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• Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

  Eric Lander

  Writing, Dna, Scientist

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• Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

  Alane Ferguson

  Reading, Adventure, Voice

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• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

  Bill Joy

  Window, Gave Up, Display

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• How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

  Nancy Horan

  Effort, Trying, Behavior

  Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books

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• The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

  Gary Kildall

  Thinking, Profound, Style

  "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

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• The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.

  Alfred Jodl

  Hands, Order, Ideas

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• It's harder to read code than to write it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Harder

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

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• Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

  Joel Spolsky

  Talking, Listening, Mind

  "The StackOverflow Podcast #38" with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, stackoverflow.fogbugz.com. January 22, 2009.

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• What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.

  Joshua Bloch

  Expression, Names, Variables

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• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Stars, Memories, Reality

  "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.

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