Can't change Quote by Grace Hopper

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

— Steve Yegge

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

— Brian Kernighan

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

— Grace Hopper

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Henry Spencer

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

— Erik Naggum

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

— Tom Christiansen

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a…

— Peter Seibel

“a C compiler. A compiler is a program that converts C code into executable machine code.”

— Wiki Books