Top 1200 Writing Code Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

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

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided it's worth writing for women.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version of yourself.

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

There are neural networks that can build whole apps from scratch - so why are we teaching high school kids to code?

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

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

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.