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 - [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code)
### If I may add to the above definition - _the very substance of "life"_. The fact that humans are "alive" is due to the 'Soul' (Sol [light]), which contain the **"Code"**.
We'll leave that as that for now.
The Matrix which we're in is a **program** and everything therein (including humans) is.
Therefore Code is key - its everything.
So **LEARN TO CODE**.
<h2>[On (Not) Learning to Code](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/on-not-learning-to-code/252201/)</h2> - The Atlantic
>If you check out the homepage for [Code Year](http://codeyear.com/) -- where many thousands of people are following the weekly tutorials in Javascript -- you'll see this line from **Douglass Rushkoff:** _"If we don't learn to program, we risk being programmed ourselves."_ (He even [wrote a book about it](http://www.rushkoff.com/program-or-be-programmed/).) Similarly, the fine Mac developer Daniel Jalkut writes,
>Literacy isn't about becoming a Hemingway or a Chabon. It's about learning the basic tools to get a job done. I think programming -- coding -- is much the same. You don't have to be the world's best programmer to develop a means of expressing yourself, of solving a problem, of making something happen. If you're lucky, you'll be a genius, but you start out with the basics.
>Long ago, it would have been ridiculous to assume a whole society could be judged by its ability to read and write prose. It feels ridiculous now, to assume that we might use computer programming as a similar benchmark. Yet it may happen.
### "It's more important to learn to code than to learn a foreign language."
_- Tim Cook_
<h2>[Apple CEO Tim Cook Learned to Code in College](https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/22/apple-ceo-tim-cook-coding-college/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=front)</h2> - **MacRumors**
### Under the leadership of Apple CEO _Tim Cook_, Apple has spearheaded an ["Everyone Can Code"](https://www.apple.com/everyone-can-code/) initiative designed to introduce coding curriculum into elementary schools, high schools, and colleges, so kids and adults of all ages can learn to code.
>Apple CEO _Tim Cook_ always speaks passionately about the importance of teaching coding to children of all ages, and last week in an interview, he even said that if you have to make a choice, it's more important to learn to code than to learn a foreign language.
### I learned in college. No classes exist in the high school I attended. I'm happy this is now changing.
- _Tim Cook_
Everyone Can Code
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