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I am a programmer.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

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

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

I was a programmer.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

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

Software is the language of automation.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

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.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.