Rachel Khoo Quotes

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

I am a programmer.

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.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

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.

As technologists, we all write code.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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 best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

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.

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

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.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

I don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

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.