Top 515 Code Quotes

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
William O. Douglas
I’ve always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That’s how Facebook started, after all.
John Battelle
In American politics, ‘Europe’ is usually a code word for ‘big government.’
James Surowiecki
I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we’re going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does.
Reshma Saujani
My background industry is design – I code a lot, too – but there’s been this narrative of design in technology becoming more prominent. What the UI enables on Pinterest is this human activity that ends up creating a great database.
Evan Sharp
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.
John Cena
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
Jeffrey Zeldman
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
Even if you’re going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking and being able to process information and break it down is important no matter what you’re doing. Having that knowledge of code is something that you can apply to your daily life.
iJustine
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is ‘race.’
Paul Mooney
Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.
James Gosling
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.
Shaquille O’Neal
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Grover Norquist
I personally – if I were designing the tax code – would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
Bill Kristol
Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
Abhinav Bindra
What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
Linus Torvalds
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days

Many days I don’t write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Larry Wall
People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what’s right?
Riley Keough
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don’t bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple’s rules. If you’re even allowed to.
Douglas Rushkoff
We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.
Kay Ivey
I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.
Gulzar
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Barry Diller
It’s like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I’m talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn’t even cutting it, I’m taking a TV dinner and I’m getting in bed here.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik
You know what’s not around anymore? There’s no code anymore. There’s no loyalty.
Matt Serra
The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything from social media feeds to search engines and satellite navigation to music recommendation systems.
Hannah Fry
I think that if we want to cure cancer, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to do something about climate change, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to solve homelessness in our city and our country, teach girls to code. They’re change makers.
Reshma Saujani
The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.
Jessica Savitch
I went to a Cal Tech party after the ‘Facebook’ movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.
Kerry Bishe
I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
Kimberly Bryant
I’d think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.
Mitt Romney
I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Every student – no matter their family income or zip code – deserves access to an education that prepares them to lead successful careers.
Ned Lamont
My secret weapon is my wife. She’s the best judge. She’s a scientist and a natural reader. We’ve developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it’s what saves me from wild digressions.
Erik Larson
Telling Alan Turing’s story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.
Graham Moore
North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.
David Rouzer
It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.
Jim Mattis
When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven’t cracked the code.
Troy Carter
Girls Who Code is all about providing role models. You can’t be what you can’t see.
Reshma Saujani
Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system as a whole.
James Gosling
I’m not sure I’d be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it’s a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.
Ory Okolloh
I want to learn how to stick around this league. I don’t think there’s a cheat code to it. But the sooner you find it out, the better you’ll be.
D’Angelo Russell
I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 – the area code, not the band – Mile High, until I die. I’m 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don’t glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
T. J. Miller
For a lot of actors, there’s a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don’t have. I love feeling like I’m – I won’t even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family’s consciousness or my past. That’s really amusing to me.
Tilda Swinton
Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code.
Ellen Ullman
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
Francis Crick
Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you’ll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
Aaron Patzer
We know that at conception, the genetic code is there f

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.
Dan Lipinski
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. Except I wasn’t a morning person, so I was quite frequently late for work. On top of that, it was a fairly big company, they were fussy about the dress code, and I got chewed out quite often.
Akira Toriyama
We’ve learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.
Kevin Young
Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
Vladimir Potanin
Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.
Kevin Hassett
For many Americans the term ‘speech code’ sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.
Kirsten Powers