“It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.” MenWould BeMoralPiecesHe ManColdCodeBoastCommonplaceAccusationMoral Code Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake.” IfsShouldHardRunningRememberPresidentPiecesWifeFormerCodeRememberedIslandsCakeGovernorsStaffPasswordsNukesRhode Island Author:Jimmy Fallon
“It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.” WritingHardPiecesCodeSmallest Author:Joshua Bloch
“Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldKindUsedBehindsPiecesEssenceCleverAll KindsCodeDirtyInterfaces Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.” PeopleShowsRealityLyingOrderQualityPiecesPhotographyEvidenceCode Author:Christian Boltanski