Brian Kernighan Quotes

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

I am a programmer.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

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.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

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

I was a programmer.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

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

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

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

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

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.