Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

I'm very much a technical person.

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

I've always been a techie kind of person.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

I'm a little bit of a techie.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I'm an engineer.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

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

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

I'm not a computer girl.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

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

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

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.