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Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

Quote by Robert Patterson about end

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about tests, voice, ability

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of...

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when...

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as...

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about criminals, humanity, hell, thinking, help

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Quote by Orson Scott about old, god

My mother was quite anarchic and yet she had quite a moral code about personal responsibility. She was constantly stimulating her children's imaginations.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about mother, children, moral

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about commerce, authority

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc. , under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn

Each computer code has five bugs, and tis number does not...

Each computer code has five bugs, and tis number does not depend on how many bugs have been already found it is conservative.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, numbers

Every non-trivial program can be simplified by at least...

Every non-trivial program can be simplified by at least one line of code.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, ...

So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, intelligence

The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do...

The chances of a program doing what it's supposed to do is inversely proportional to the number of lines of code used to write it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, chance, numbers

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard...

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, real estate

The amount of damage that a string of code can do is...

The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

Ten seconds after you have finished giving a complete bed...

Ten seconds after you have finished giving a complete bed bath and changing the bed, the patient has a giant code brown.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

When the nurse on the preceding shift has surrounded the...

When the nurse on the preceding shift has surrounded the patient with absorbent pads, the code brown will hit every sheet and miss every pad.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

When you are starting an IV on an uncooperative patient, or dealing with a huge code brown, there is a phone call for you and it's that crabby physician that you have been paging all morning.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I...

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about conduct, rules, life

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