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There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.
"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
Theoretically, I have no business starting an organization called Girls Who Code, because I don't code.
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does.
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.
When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we're going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does.
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
I'm tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.
I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision.
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.
For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.