Code Quotes - Page 35

• If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Way, Hacked

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• The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

  Charlie Munger

  Giving, Advantage, Enormous

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• Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Names, Secret, President

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• Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Order, Cds

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

  Ted Cruz

  Irs

  "Ted Cruz: Anti-amnesty candidate can win a general election". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  Terence McKenna

  Dog, Writing, Technology

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• We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Real, Fire Of Love, Political

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• The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eight, Machines, Levels

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Doors, Creating

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• To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

  Henry Rollins

  Powerful, Cds, Littles

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• Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

  Dave Barry

  House, Musk, Congress

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

  Jay Leno

  Weekend, Catholic, Church

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• In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

  Ellen Goodman

  Iron, Revolution, Steel

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax break, because it's assumed that we all agree that we want to encourage churches and children. I don't. I don't. That's my opinion. I don't want to encourage either churches or children, and it's a very bad idea to put them together.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Ideas, Together

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Construction Workers, Morse Code, Paranoid

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• During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Order, Years

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• Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cutting, Average, People

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• I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

  Taylor Swift

  Color, Used, Closets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect." Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is." Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

  V. Bozeman

  Rocks, Black, Trying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.

  Christian Boltanski

  Photography, Lying, Reality

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• The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

  Bill Viola

  Light, Dna, Speed

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• Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.

  Chris Hardwick

  Girl, Running, Clubs

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• Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

  Reshma Saujani

  Girl, Powerful, Four

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