269 Quotes About Code

Everything is just a game... made by human and the complexity is again made by human... so after all you re under the code... that's why you lose.

Programmers and software engineers who dive into code without writing a spec tend to think they're cool gunslingers, shooting from the hip. They're not. They are terribly unproductive. They write bad code and produce shoddy software, and they threaten their projects by taking giant risks which are completely uncalled for.

Programming is a social activity.

I am an expert on the language of crop circles.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how to speak. When we gained literacy, we learned not just how to read but how to write. And as we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to use programs but how to make them. In the emerging highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It’s really that simple: Program, or be programmed.

Once drawn, a sword must taste blood or be forfeit. That was our law, our code, and these were easy kills.

I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.