Jeff Minter Quotes

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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

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

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

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

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.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

I actually am a computer nerd.

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.

Programming is all about numbers.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

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

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.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

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.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

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.

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.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

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

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.