Ifs Quote by Henry Spencer

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

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

— Steve Yegge

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

— Erik Naggum

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

— Grace Hopper

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

— David Gries

“However, a real implementation may still have to include code to handle the case where something happens that was assumed to be impossible, even…

— Martin Kleppmann

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

— Ron Jeffries

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

— Karl Lehenbauer

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs…

— Robert D Keppel

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

— Eric Baum

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods…

— Jeff Knupp