Tim Sweeney Quotes

I am a programmer.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

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

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

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

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

I was a programmer.

People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work.

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