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Writing code is both focusing and unreasonably fun. β€” Greg Brockman

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. β€” Martin Fowler

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. β€” Dennis Ritchie

One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. β€” Greg Brockman

Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative. β€” Reshma Saujani

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. β€” Bill Gates

Code never lies, comments sometimes do. - Ron Jeffries

Code never lies, comments sometimes do. β€” Ron Jeffries

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. β€” Richard Stallman

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. β€” Richard E. Pattis

Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. β€” Maria Klawe

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry β€” Ted Nelson

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. β€” Douglas Crockford

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. β€” Larry Constantine

Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. β€” Greg Brockman

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. β€” Nicholas Negroponte

Short Codes Quotes

  • I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. β€” Mitch Hedberg
  • Talk is cheap. Show me the code. β€” Linus Torvalds
  • Flow state while coding never gets old. β€” Greg Brockman
  • I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently. β€” Jay Shetty
  • One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. β€” Ken Thompson
  • We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. β€” Jean Houston
  • Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? β€” Doug Coupland
  • It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. β€” Ken Thompson
  • Code and media are permissionless leverage. β€” Naval Ravikant
  • Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around. β€” Eric S. Raymond

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. β€” Brian Kernighan

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. β€” Bob Ney

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher. β€” Clifford Stoll

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics. β€” Walter Russell

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. β€” Henry James Sumner Maine

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. β€” Richard Stallman

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

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works β€” Martin Fowler

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. β€” Larry Wall

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. β€” Bill Gates

Writing Words Quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. β€” Victor Hugo

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. β€” Charles Capps

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. β€” James A. Michener

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. β€” Aldous Huxley

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. β€” Cole Porter

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired. β€” Lucille Clifton

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. β€” Jack Kerouac

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. - Richard Brautigan

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. β€” Richard Brautigan

When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension. β€” Jacques Brel

I can’t write five words but that I change seven. β€” Dorothy Parker

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More Codes Quotes

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs. β€” Emmeline Pankhurst

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. β€” Frederic Bastiat

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness β€” Laura Mulvey

I don't respect killers, I respect O.G. knowledge, Codes of the streets got new rules, but no guidance. Lessons, detrimental to a young disciple; Folks, take care of your brothers, niggas do as I do. Keep your enemies close, where they can see you. It's not your enemy who get you, it's always your own people. β€” Nas

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. β€” Edsger Dijkstra

The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do. β€” Maxine Waters

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: β€œYe shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. β€” Mark Twain

The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. β€” Tucker Carlson

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. β€” Ayn Rand

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle. β€” Evan Sayet

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contracts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent. β€” Nick Szabo

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison. β€” Stephen Harper

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination. β€” Gad Saad

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. β€” Miguel de Icaza

Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins. β€” Max Keiser

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect. β€” Richard Neal

Love the feeling of coding until you get so tired thinking becomes slow, and then you go to sleep knowing you’ll be refreshed and right back at it in the morning. β€” Greg Brockman

Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love. β€” Paramahansa Yogananda

Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties. In other words, Bitcoin automates the functions of a modern central bank and makes them predictable and virtually immutable by programming them into code decentralized among thousands of network members, none of whom can alter the code without the consent of the rest. This makes Bitcoin the first demonstrably reliable operational example of digital cash and digital hard money. β€” Saifedean Ammous

I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. β€” Balaji Srinivasan

I think people don't realize that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature. β€” Vitalik Buterin

Something that made a large impression on me when I started coding β€” each day when you're done working, you just save your work & it's there forever. Very unlike building something physical where your artifact can break, or math where daily progress is usually your mental state. β€” Greg Brockman

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. β€” Carole Lombard

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. β€” Linus Torvalds

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. β€” Paul Valery

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. β€” Annie Jacobsen

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues. β€” John Maynard Keynes

We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil. β€” Benjamin Netanyahu

Dear Google, stop teaching my girl that her path to financial freedom lies not in coding but in complaining to HR. β€” Eric Weinstein

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar. β€” Francis Crick

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