Encoding Quotes

#1. Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#2. The tattoo on her left forearm. Five digits encoding nothing but the unspoken prohibition on my asking her about them. The jaunty 7 with its continental slash.

Michael Chabon

#3. The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.

John Medina

#4. Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman

#5. if I must encode either the interface or the implementation, I choose the implementation. Calling it ShapeFactoryImp, or even the hideous CShapeFactory, is preferable to encoding the interface.

Robert C. Martin

#6. Every decoding is another encoding.

David Lodge

#7. All of them were arrayed against the usual resistance of entrenched power and privilege and the economic system encoding these same, but now with the food panic reminding everyone that mass death was a distinct possibility, some progress was possible, for

Kim Stanley Robinson

#8. My name or yours doesn't matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power'.

Vishal Chipkar

#9. His can of pepper spray was bigger than my can of pepper spray.

Janet Evanovich

#10. The future makes the rules.

Chuck Klosterman

#11. There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#12. In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Marjane Satrapi

#13. I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. [The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

George Washington

#15. In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication ... believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Alain De Botton

#17. I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Jack Nicholson

#18. Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

Ted Hughes

#19. Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero