Brenda Laurel Quotes

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.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

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

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.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

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

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

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 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.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

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

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

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.

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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.

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

I love software and I love technology.

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.