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Source: Minority Report

“We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”

Has Beens Science Values Order Creative Ignorance Ideals Physics Code Contradiction Be Creative Physicist

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share, one with another, such experiences as may have common value.”

May Persons Philosophy Desire Values Common Responsibility Share Life Philosophy Fairs Code Accomplished Convince Mutual Sincere Invites Good Will Not Fair

Author:Manly Hall

“There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”

Men Trying Stills Political Lying Politics Honor Politician Assuming Statements Code Indifference Cracks Contempt Expecting Inherent Accustomed Scandal High Places

Book:Women and honor: some notes on lying

Source: Women and honor: some notes on lying

“When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.”

Used Ridiculous Code Mafia Sociopath Sopranos Used To Love Russian Mafia

Author:David Chase

“In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.”

Seems Community Cities Dangerous Surface Code Refuge Unreal Nostalgic Badges

Author:Jonathan Raban

“The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.”

War Helping Poor Rich Taxes Areas Driven Billions Administration Code Unnecessary Get Rich Unnecessary War

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.”

Way Writing Firsts May Made Order Literature Mistake Known Media Achievement Mere Patterns Made It Code Greek Visuals Printing Transmission Supposing New Media Supposing That

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.”

People Writing Willing Code Reviews Write Your Own

Author:Bill Gates

“Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.”

Looks Source Tools Code Analyzing

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.”

Writing Code Writing Code

Author:Larry Wall

“We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.”

Stills Given Our Lives Ethics Code Live By Code Of Ethics

Author:Gary Oldman

“At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.”

Ifs Character Three Names Five Definitions Missions Lists Code Requirements Costumes Superhero Superpower Milieu

Author:Kurt Busiek

“New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.”

Firsts Sometimes Form Challenges Media Television Internet Radio Traditional Code Shakes Conventions Provoking Status Quo Outrage Talk Radio

Author:Willow Bay

“In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.”

Courses Heaven Rivers Code Better Life Crossings Jordan Escaping Deliverance

Author:Kathleen Battle

“Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.”

People Thinking Source Projects Sticks Code Chaotic Developers Open Source

Author:Mitchell Baker

“The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.”

Bigs Term Lines Projects Code Complexity Mozilla

Author:Mitchell Baker

“I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.”

Trying Use Might School South Solve Medical Code Department South Africa Laboratory Physiology Medical School Medical Education Might Use

Author:Sydney Brenner

“In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Term Hours Attitude Dresses Code Reasonable Just Being Strict Bad Attitude Aspergers Dress Code

Author:Bram Cohen

“It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.”

Numbers Lows Conclusion Secure Code Nonsense Deductions Triplet

Author:Francis Crick

“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.”

May Seems Code Acid Amino Acids Triplet

Author:Francis Crick

“It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.”

Evidence Direct Method Code Indirect Triplet

Author:Francis Crick

“If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.”

Ifs Doe Evidence Foundation Code Logical Good And Bad

Author:Francis Crick

“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.”

May Possibility Raises Observation Code Minorities Unfortunate Acid Ambiguous Unclear Amino Acids Triplet

Author:Francis Crick

“We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.”

Names Lines Forget Written Internet Code Infrastructure One Line

Author:Robert Cailliau

“The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.”

Justice Military Type Available Code

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“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.”

Play Character Guy Fun Complicated Code Get Away Live By Heroic Bad Guys

Author:Peter Dinklage

“My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.”

Giving Law Integrity Taxes Code Enforcement Charitable Trustees Charitable Giving

Author:Chuck Grassley

“I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.”

Thinking Character Certain Hero Conflict British Code Demon Live By Inner Conflict Inner Demons

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.”

Book Source Computer Code Covered

Author:Larry Wall

“I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"”

Ifs Writing Said Left Stuff Half Machines Errors Recovery Hey Code Programming Halls Routine Panic Crash Unix

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent".”

People Ifs Should Writing Book Process Sides Term Lines Numbers Program Productions Productivity Code Programming Programmers

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.”

Giving States Jobs Moving United Company Break United States Taxes Investing Congress China Flight Code Mexico Outsourcing Tax Breaks

Author:Barack Obama

“Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.”

Loses Silence Following Code Adages

Author:Billy Joel

“Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.”

Men Wind Judgment Code Live By Petty Adages

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“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.”

Ifs Knows Know How Code Pilots Beacons Morse Code

Author:Mike Ferguson

“What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.”

Way Important Purpose Common Principles Members Organization Absolutes Conviction Clarity Code

Author:Dee Hock

“I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.”

People Careful London Code Polite

Author:Tom Hooper

“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'.”

Long Government Company One Thing Labels Code Shakes Employee Competitors Motor Tarp

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.

“I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.”

Thinking Important Stories Audience Research Historical Code Detectives Recognise Readership Detective Stories Da Vinci Code

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

Ifs Knows Kind Made Given Design Taxes Percent Paid Investment Code Romney

Author:William Kristol

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