Compiler Quotes
- I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper
- 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… — Dennis Ritchie
- Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan
- I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. — John Carmack
- 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… — Gary Kildall
- 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… — Eric S. Raymond
- 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… — Samuel Johnson
- Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. — Tim Berners-Lee