Sylvia Day Quotes

I'm a geek. A techie geek.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

I actually am a computer nerd.

I am a programmer.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

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

I'm not a computer girl.

My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.