{"quotes":[{"text":"The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.","author":"Brion Gysin","tags":["code","contamination","cut-ups","fiction","language","word"],"id":4359,"author_id":"Brion+Gysin"},{"text":"Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["code","czech","decode","enigma","forgetting","history","messages","myth","novel","past","signs","symbols"],"id":23972,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"Genetic code is a divine writing.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["code","creation","divine","dna","genetic","god","life","secret","writing"],"id":24715,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses.","author":"Kamila Shamsie","tags":["code","mystery","romance"],"id":30057,"author_id":"Kamila+Shamsie"},{"text":"And what's above all... Above us... Who is God!?- Who are the aliens... Who are the people which ignore us!?","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["code","level","true"],"id":31435,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?","author":"Eoin Colfer","tags":["artemis","code","eoin-colfer","eternity","fowl"],"id":40825,"author_id":"Eoin+Colfer"},{"text":"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.","author":"Larry Wall","tags":["language","real","code "],"id":45417,"author_id":"Larry+Wall"},{"text":"To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... And contradictory in my code....","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["code","doubt","how","work"],"id":45625,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Programming is a social activity.","author":"Robert C. Martin","tags":["clean","code","prigramming","social","software","software-development"],"id":49339,"author_id":"Robert+C.+Martin"},{"text":"Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.","author":"Charles Lee","tags":["code","duty","honor","purpose"],"id":55630,"author_id":"Charles+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}