Tobias Lutke Quotes

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 into computers and have been for a while.

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 think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

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

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University.

I am a programmer.

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.

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

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

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 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.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

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.