Hilary Mason Quotes

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.

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

I don't program or code or anything like that.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

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.

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.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

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 had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

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

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

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.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.