Markus Persson Quotes

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

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.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

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

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.

I am a programmer.

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.

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

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.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

I started programming before even being in school.

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.

All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

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

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I was a programmer.

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.