Larry Ellison Quotes

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

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

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

I was a programmer.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

I do receive a summary of daily news, but my work is mostly electronics and I.T.

I'm not an IT expert myself.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

This is a software-powered world.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.