Computer Quote by Steve Yegge Download Open image “If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.” — Steve Yegge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computers Ifs Know how Knows
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
“a C compiler. A compiler is a program that converts C code into executable machine code.” — Wiki Books Copy Share Image
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces,… — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into… — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
“Bob Jervis, the original author of Turbo C, gave a tech talk recently in which he pointed out that even just the set of… — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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