Patrick Pichette Quotes

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

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.

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

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

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.

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

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

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

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.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

After 14 years of running DonorsChoose.org as someone who had never written a line of code, I did do a three-month night school course. After all these years, I could at least speak some of the same vocabulary and have a first-hand appreciation for what my colleagues on the engineering team are doing.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

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.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.