Quotes about Code
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
- Bill Gates
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
- Ayn Rand
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
- Stephen Covey
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
- Ayn Rand
See this, Juice? Science comes from nature. It's kind of a branch of it. Like Jesus is a branch of God. And if we believe science is true, then we can act. And we'll be saved. Juicy stuck a bleeding finger in his mouth. Saved like, go to heaven? Holmes, that's some Santa Claus shit. ...No. Like the earth. The climate. The animals, said Jack. Heaven's part of the code. It just means, a good place for us all to live.
- Lydia Millet
Don't worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are complaining about the difficulty of making changes, then take such complaints seriously and give them time to fix things. -Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks (from Is Design Dead?) If
- Jason Fried
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
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
- William Faulkner
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Phillips Brooks