Rand Paul Quotes

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.

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'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.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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

I am a programmer.

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.

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.

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 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.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

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

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

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.