Quotes About Assembly Language

#1. C is not clean - the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

Erik Naggum

#2. I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

#3. Colossal Cave (also known as Adventure - not to be confused with the Atari VCS game of the same name) was developed by assembly-language programmer William Crowther

Anonymous

#4. The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

Mark Pearce

#5. 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

#6. C is the assembly language of Tcl.

Karl Lehenbauer

#7. Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Steve Toltz

#8. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

#9. Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is a compiled language, which creates fast and efficient executable files. It is also a small "what you see is all you get" language:

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#10. ...I was shut up inside that doll of myself, and my true voice could not get out.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Alright Shamblers Let's Get Shamblin'.

Matt Wallace

#12. I'd probably sleep like an angel but dream like the Devil, if the images of Reed didn't leave my sinful mind.

K.L. Middleton

#13. Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

John Berger

#14. A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.

Raymond Simard

#15. There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

Glenn Branca

#16. Sham idealists: the quite large number of people who profess ideals as a form of premium for other-life insurance, and are content to lay up slavery and destitution for their descendants so long as they are enabled to produce personal copybooks of elevated views at the gate of heaven.

John Wyndham

#17. I write to find out what I think.

Stephen King

#18. Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away.

Zora Neale Hurston