Bill Gates Quotes

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

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

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.

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

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

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'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.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

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

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.

I studied Computer Science when I was in my undergrad and minored in Digital Art & Design.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

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

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our deals team and our designers all have GitHub accounts and they go into the code base.