Arithmetic Quote by Grace Hopper

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

— Steve Yegge

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without…

— Andy Rooney

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

— Brian Kernighan

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…

— Grace Hopper

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers…

— Lisa Ling

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

— William Thurston

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

— Paul Allen

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's…

— Bill Gates

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

— Bertrand Meyer

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

— Ted Nelson