Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

As technologists, we all write code.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

I don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.