Top 515 Code Quotes

The original publication of ‘The DaVinci Code’ preceded the e-book era.

It should not matter what a kid’s zip code is nor should it matter what their mom and dad do or in some instance don’t do for a living.

I’ve done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I’ve been asked to ‘be blacker.’ That’s code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.

I’m in no way saying that women can’t take a tough code review. I’m saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.

So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its ‘Government Motors’ image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: ‘GM is a failure.’

I’m kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they’re written ‘normal,’ which is just code for white.

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, ‘no’ means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you’re doing.

There really, truly is a code that rodeo men and women have you can’t find anywhere else. There really is a code. It’s a sense of tribalism.

Drosnin’s ‘The Bible Code’ would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

In jail, you just zone out, so that’s the thing. That’s like a cheat code.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal – there’s no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

The core hacker premise that ‘code wins arguments’ is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

The quality of a student’s education should not be determined by their zip code.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not ‘honor’ but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

‘The Da Vinci Code’ was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It’s always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don’t have a heroic code you have to live by.

We’re more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.

Fighters have a code, a law, and you have to respect everybody.

Information is crucial to our biological substance – our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.

I enjoy the pro game because it gives me an outlet to combine my intellect with something that I can still enjoy doing. It’s better than applying my intellect while sitting in a corner office somewhere, trying to write code.

It’s time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems – and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.

I’m a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.

I don’t know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

The media’s apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.

I’ve been told that I wasn’t Latino enough, which was code for ‘street’ enough.

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.

I am very concerned about anything that says ‘revenue’ because let’s just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.

Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.

The tax code’s complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he’s made a decision that he’s going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He’s decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.

My sincere hope is that ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

I tell all my students, ‘Learn how to code.’ It’s sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you’re still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that’s when you should do it.

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code – whether it’s the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders.

I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it’s all in code in a language I totally don’t understand.

We’re moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

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.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies’ security teams’ files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It’s just more efficient.

There’s a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I’ve broken our code of silence.

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it’s important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.