Literary notes about code (AI summary)
The term "code" in literature is remarkably versatile, serving as a bridge between the technical, legal, and moral realms. In modern cyber thrillers like Cory Doctorow’s works, it represents computer programs and digital instructions—tools that can pull data at lightning speed or even serve as badges of identity [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. Meanwhile, in historical and legal texts, “code” evokes compilations of laws and regulations, as in references to ancient systems like the Theodosian Code or the early laws that shaped civilizations [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]. Moreover, many authors use the term metaphorically to denote systems of morality and social conduct, from knightly honor and personal ethics to idiosyncratic local customs [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23]. In this way, "code" not only dictates operations and legal frameworks but also shapes narratives about identity, order, and societal values.
- By running her code, I was able to pull the video from all those DNS servers, all over the Internet, at incredible speed.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - I spent a night a week at Jolu's these days, keeping the code up to date on indienet.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - I never thought I'd be paid to write code.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Bernstein had written a crypto tutorial that contained computer code that could be used to make a cipher stronger than DES-56.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Computers can control you or they can lighten your work -- if you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - He'd taught Darryl Morse code when he was a kid, which I'd always thought was cool.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - vii.,) the Code, (l. v. tit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - M. Wiarda has been opposed by M. Fuer bach, who maintains the higher age of the "ancient" Code, which has been greatly corrupted by the transcribers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Now in point of fact the life of the early kings is regulated, as we have seen and shall see more fully presently, by a very exact code of rules.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - About 450 B.C. a commission is said to have been appointed in Rome to visit Greece and collect information to frame a code of law.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - ] Note 36 ( return ) [ His laws are the first in the code.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 64 Note 60 ( return ) [ See the Code of Justinian, l. viii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 145 Note 143 ( return ) [ His three laws are inserted in the Theodosian Code, l. xi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - c. 71, p. 296,) Ammianus, (xxii. 9,) and the Theodosian Code (l. xii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - See likewise the Theodosian Code, (l. ix.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - According to the code of knightly honour, the reproach of being a liar is of extreme gravity, and only to be washed out with the accuser's blood.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - To hear some persons, one would suppose that all that ethics aims at is a code of merits and demerits.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - "Whether your damned code of honor is worth Ferguson."
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse - She will do just what she likes herself whilst insisting on everybody else doing what the conventional code prescribes.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw - But more than that, he had formulated his first philosophy, a code to live by, which, as near as it can be named, was a sort of aristocratic egotism.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - X Every village has its idiosyncrasy, its constitution, often its own code of morality.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy - In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
— from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
