Compilers Quotes

#1. Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)

Brian Kernighan

#2. Linux provides programmers with everything they need: libraries, compilers, and debugging/development tools. These features are included in all standard Linux versions.

Andrew Johansen

#3. Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Al Kooper

#4. Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Samuel Johnson

#5. Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Larry Wall

#6. If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

Steve Yegge

#7. First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#8. Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Franz Grillparzer

#9. In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

Alger Hiss

#10. Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Howard Fast

#11. When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#12. No wonder people who believe in hell endeavor to establish it on earth

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#13. The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil

Nicki Minaj