Top 515 Code Quotes

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people’s code is invaluable as well.
Brian Kernighan
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure o

I think it’s a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.
Riley Keough
If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.
Lecrae
There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can’t quote something that isn’t sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
Peter Morgan
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord’s Prayer.
William Proxmire
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
Richard Dawkins
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
Julius Wellhausen
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong – I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.
Gloria Estefan
Genomics are about individuals. It’s about what’s specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents – each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code.
Craig Venter
The problem with wanting the tax code to be ‘simpler, fairer,’ and ‘pro-growth’ is that it’s impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
Timothy Noah
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
Ken Thompson
When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it.
Ellen Ullman
As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one – that’s how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that ‘text,’ tinker with traits – play God, some would say.
Gregory Benford
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we’re going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.
Herman Cain
I believe that San Diego cannot truly reach its fullest potential until every San Diegan, no matter their ZIP code or race, has the opportunity to reach theirs.
Kevin Faulconer
The word ‘code’ turns out to be a really important word for my book, ‘The Information.’ The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
James Gleick
In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates’ list for office.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
Charles Duhigg
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
The materialisation of reforms in the form of rollout of the GST, the institution of Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board should boost investor and investment confidence.
Urjit Patel
America’s tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won’t work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.
Kevin Brady
We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It’s not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.
Craig Venter
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Michael Specter
Like, my whole life I’ve been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.
Jay Rock
Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
Santiago Calatrava
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.
Kent Beck
I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
Michael Moore
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn’t matter that it’s done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
John T. Flynn
Advertising isn’t just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
Jan Koum
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don’t know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
Mel Gibson
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral

I’m Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.
Vera Rubin
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
Richard Powers
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
Mike Ferguson
The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.
Russell Smith
In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, ‘It will preserve jobs.’
Elizabeth Warren
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don’t check in code anymore.
Mark Zuckerberg
You can’t just watch people type all day, and you can’t really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.
Alec Berg
The Highway Code can’t be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there’s actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that’s their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.
Tom Glavine
To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.
Eric Lefkofsky
You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
Ken Thompson
I’m an expert witness in a case that’s in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company – he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.
Kevin Mitnick
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
Herman Cain
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
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
Jim Ramstad
The surfers’ code is that you surf your wave and let the world discuss it as you move on to the next one.
Garrett McNamara
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
Samuel Freeman Miller
You can’t copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp’s famous work, code is both, at the same time.
Sarah Jeong
I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.
Kent Beck
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
John T. Flynn
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
Jamie Zawinski
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
Peter Fenton
Our nation’s tax code is a broken mess of rules and regulations. It rewards special interests, punishes success and holds back millions of Americans seeking better jobs, higher wages, and greater opportunities.
Chris Sununu