Guy Martin Quotes

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

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.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

The joy I get from work is just huge.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.