Compiler Quotes

#1. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Paul Graham

#2. Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Fernando J. Corbato

#3. var says, "Let the compiler figure out the type." dynamic says, "Let the runtime figure out the type.

Joseph Albahari

#4. If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Henry Spencer

#5. I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Grace Hopper

#6. At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Dennis Ritchie

#7. Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Grace Hopper

#8. TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Donald Knuth

#9. I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

John Carmack

#10. Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Samuel Johnson

#11. But you weren't born," I tell him. "I wrote an algorithm based on the Linux operating kernel. You're an open-source search engine married to a dialog bot and a video compiler. The program scrubs the Web and archives a person's images and videos and data - everything you say, you've said before." For

Adam Johnson

#12. The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

Gary Kildall

#13. Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

#14. Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

Brian Kernighan

#15. Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#16. An interface is a contract between you, the code developer, and the compiler.

Anonymous

#17. It's a lot easier to lose your head than to keep it.

Suzanne Collins

#18. Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.

Benjamin Kane Ethridge

#19. The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.

Menna Van Praag

#20. Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Slavoj Zizek

#21. Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.

Isaac Asimov

#22. This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another - and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.

Michael Crichton

#23. It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

Mark Lloyd

#24. I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.

Peace Pilgrim

#25. Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

Adam McKay

#26. What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

Jerold Panas

#27. It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Susumu Tonegawa

#28. I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Eric Balfour