Lisa Su Quotes

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

In my village there was no chance to study machines.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination.

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

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

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.

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.

I just write mechanical things.

I've always been a tech-head.

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

I'm very much a technical person.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

The purpose creates the machine.

Technology is fascinating.