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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Jerry Weller

  Tolls, Information, Used

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• 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.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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

  Martin Fowler

  Engineering, Lines, Software

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• Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

  Erik Naggum

  Thinking, Errors, Etc

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• Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole].

  Tony Kornheiser

  Years, Car, People

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please.

  Albert J. Nock

  Hurt, Kings, Men

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 36), 1935.

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• The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

  Hugh Hefner

  Men, America, People

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Legacy, Alternatives

  "Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++". Book by Mark Wilcox, 2009.

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

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Tasks, Done, Revision

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?

  Glenn Beck

  Mistake, People, Common Sense

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

  Jennifer Beals

  Boxing, Chicago, Knows

  Windy City Pride Interview, February 04, 2011.

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• In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
  there if you want to keep writing good code.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Writing, Want, Faces

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• Little else matters than to write good code.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Writing, Littles, Matter

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• Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, America, Hands

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• Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

  Linus Torvalds

  Perfect, Firsts, First Time

  YouTube Channel "Google"/"Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git", www.youtube.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Writing, Mean

  "Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation". September 15, 2008.

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Angel

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Writing, Discipline, Effort

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Moving, Winning, Simple

  "Chat with Ryan Gordon". Chrono's Pad, February 11, 2001.

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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• There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.

  John Newcombe

  Kids, Blood, Over You

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• I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA.

  Christopher Dorner

  Baby, Religious, Brother

  "Alleged cop-killer details threats to LAPD and why he was driven to violence" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

  Conan O'Brien

  Long, Pages, Sticks

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