Michael Crichton Quotes

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

I studied Computer Science when I was in my undergrad and minored in Digital Art & Design.

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

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

I would love to make video games.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

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.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

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.

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 don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

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.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

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

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Understand 'Minecraft,' and you'll begin to understand the power of games. Like any good story, this one begins with a man and a dream. Markus 'Notch' Persson first started on the project to create a three-dimensional world vast in scope, with elements that allowed you to customize your character into the way you want them.

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 think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.