I usually tell any girl she has to have at least 3 merged PRs to Core before I take her on a second date.

at first i thought that the analogy didn't work (the constitution, particularly the bill of rights, has a lot of ideas that are fairly easy to access like freedom of speech, right to bear arms, no unreasonable search or seizure -- but bitcoin's code base is not so accessible to most). 

However, the more i think about it, the more i think you may be on to something. the simple structure laid out in the constitution is highly complex when it comes to putting it into practice. And so it may be the same with bitcoin -- but i don't think I'm going to switch to telling people to read the Bitcoin Core repo anytime soon.

capaneus_the_blasphemer

I tell people the whitepaper is like the Declaration of Independence, a decent general description of the system. But if you wanna know how the government works on a granular level, you need to read The Constitution. Similarly, with bitcoin, you need to read the code (Bitcoin Core).