Astro Teller Quotes

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 am a programmer.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

I was a programmer.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

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

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

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

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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 know one business, and that's how to make software.

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.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

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

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.

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.

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

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.