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“We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.”

People Heart Broken Authority Foundation Code Logical Broken Heart Staff Expertise Chunks Delegates

Author:Mitchell Baker

“We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.”

Source: Propaganda

“Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.”

Turns Social Sex Moral Pursuit Confusion Code Exhausting Immorality Compliance Moral Code

Book:Love in the Western World

Source: Love in the Western World

“We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.”

Common Lord Building Committed Code Temples Articles Magnificent Rams Birthplace

Author:Venkaiah Naidu

“Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.”

Ifs Thinking Should Rooms Beauty Ethics Doctors Code Abusive Interrogation Code Of Ethics

Author:Jane Mayer

“Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.”

Minutes Code Portions Polite Etiquette

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.”

Want Art Secret Design Code

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.”

Want Risk Share Products Code

Author:Eben Moglen

“Or 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.”

Children Ideas Feelings Teach Learning Standards Ideals Our Children Code Live By Heritage Disney Company Exchanging Ideas

Author:Walt Disney

“Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).”

Writing Young Scientist Code Dna

Author:Eric Lander

“Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!”

Stories Reading Voice Adventure Spots Plenty Code Genre Violet Irresistible Fast Paced Exotic Protagonists Diana Tokyo Heist Da Vinci Code

Author:Alane Ferguson

“The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.”

People Ifs Men Doe Inspiration Motivation Fall Violence Victim Faults Falling In Love Code Staying Destroying Domestic Violence

Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner

“I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.”

Window Code Display Gave Up

Author:Bill Joy

“How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.”

Trying Humans Effort Behavior Uncertainty Code Meaningless

Book:Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”

Thinking Way Trying Hours Pieces Influence Style Profound Code Programming Affected

Author:Gary Kildall

“The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Hands Order Belief Failing Crime Soldier Horrible Obligation No Idea Code Live By Cents Accusation Indictment

Author:Alfred Jodl

“It's harder to read code than to write it.”

Writing Harder Code

Book:Joel on Software

Source: Joel on Software

“Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.”

Mind Lasts Talking Principles Written Week Listening Code Programming

Author:Joel Spolsky

“What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.”

Ifs Names Hours Expression Easier Program Method Sentences Code Variables

Author:Joshua Bloch

“For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”

“There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.”

World Kind Action Lying Poor Virtue Fire Building Extraordinary Saving Burning Code Decent Orphan Burning Buildings

Author:Randy Cohen

“To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life”

Life Inspirational Religion Understanding Perfect Vision Islam Code Islamic Regulation Muslim Rules Quran Islamic Wisdom Rules And Regulations Vision Of Life

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.”

Creativity Clarity Code Bottlenecks

Author:Scott Berkun

“Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.”

Lying Numbers Doubt Trouble India Code Savages When In Doubt

Book:Rock Chick

Source: Rock Chick

“If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.”

Ifs Said Certain Code Live By Bob Dylan

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

Easy Simple Virtue Survival Strategy Evolve Code Fragile Elegant Equilibrium Fragility Artifacts

Author:Brian Foote

“Advertising isnt 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.”

Writing Company Team Sells Train Significant Advertising Data Code Insult Ads Portions Engineering Aesthetics Disruption Interruptions Mining Tuning Train Of Thought Uranium Mining

Author:Jan Koum

“I think my heartbeat might be the Morse code for ‘inappropriate.’”

Thinking Might Code Heartbeat Inappropriate Morse Code

Author:Rives

“One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.”

Giving Doe Law Political Choices Religious Birth Tradition Code Void Sanctions Childbirth

Author:Adrienne Rich

“If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.”

Ifs Trying Fall Mistake Moral Picks Authenticity Code Making Mistakes Hoping For The Best Moral Code

Author:Nicole Kidman

“Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.”

Ifs Facts Bigs Government Names Alive Ill Defined Code Cute Abstraction Puppy Big Government Cute Puppy Keeping Hope Very Cute

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.”

Moral Movement Importance Foundation Code Stressed Moral Code

Author:Nelson Mandela

“If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.”

Ifs Government Law Religious Issues Impossible Code Sovereign

Author:Randall Terry

“The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)”

Should Wells Facts Together Spiritual Moral Virtue Five Buddhism Ten Stones Foundation Code Lasting Ethical Spiritual Life Commandments Ten Commandments Jewish Faith

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.”

Ifs Want Feels Kids Young Creative Youth Computer Code Programming Traits Adulthood Young Women Empowered Computer Programming

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.”

Should Different Used Easy Realizing Mistake Type Should Have Structure Data Code Making Mistakes Scratches Starting Over Data Structures

Author:Guido van Rossum

“The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of teaching, namely : Exoterism and Esoterism, the former a code of discipline of the thought and mode of life of the masses; the latter the hierarchic school wherein were trained the chosen adepts destined to safeguard the rules imposed upon the people by the high priests.”

People Government School Teaching Discipline Exercise Mass Chosen Former Code Latter Priests Destined Hierarchy

Author:Edith Starr Miller

“I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.”

Ifs Want I Can Reason Home Would Be Romance Grows Moral Garden Plant Sticks Discrimination Code Abandon Divorced Cottages Moral Code

Book:Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams

Source: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams

“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless”

Realizing Mark Code Mature Willingness Pointless Programmers

Author:Bram Cohen

“We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.”

Thinking Light Language Sex Dark Simple Deals Computer Female Males Code Operations Description Taoism Duality Light Up Computer Language Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.”

Littles Female Males Productivity Code Taoism Cripples Binary Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.”

Ifs Matter Law Demand Gun Tough Clinton Size Refuse Criminals Administration Code Nerves Fists Bangs Doing Nothing Gore Juvenile Gun Law

Author:Bill McCollum

“You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.”

Progress Integrity Ethics Code Code Of Ethics

Author:Robert Breault

“The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for the newly elected Congress. High on the list is fundamental tax reform. In addition to overhauling the federal tax code, however, Congress should rein in the Internal Revenue Service.”

Should House Leader Republican Taxes Fundamentals Majority Congress Lists Priorities Reform Code Internals Senate Speakers Revenue Notable Reins Tax Reform Federal Taxes Majority Leader

Author:Cleta Mitchell

“We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.”

Feels Kind Reality Might Form Certain Universe Language Common Numbers Perception Messages Intelligent Mathematics Independent Aliens Mathematical Code Ufo Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

Author:Don DeLillo

“Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we are controlled, the best ever evolved by man, so far as we are able to judge. The Lord has strengthened the arms of the patriots who have defended us against the assaults of all those who have come up against us, and delivered us until today, from those who would have torn us asunder. Against all opposition, I sometimes think almost against ourselves, the Lord has brought us to our present condition, until this nation, like a city set on a hill, has become the light of the world.”

“The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.”

People Stories Dream Jobs Winning Class Poverty England Credit Cards Granted Code Working Class Grandparent Credit Card Crunch Disenchantment

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“The current tax code is a daily mugging.”

Political Taxes Currents Code National Debt

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.”

Moral Conditions Morality Environmental Code Moral Code

Author:Will Durant

“More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.”

War Whole Moral And Love Noble Manners Code Governing Chivalry Knighthood

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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