#cod

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code. ↗

— Randall Terry

#civil #civil government #code #god #government

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. ↗

— Kate Millett

#behavior #code #ever #given #having

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#plane #anger

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

#best #book-club #cape-cod #character #community

The photographic image... is a message without a code. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#image #message #photographic #without

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#coded #error #make #mistakes