Patrick Collison Quotes

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

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

I am a programmer.

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

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.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

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.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

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.

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

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

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

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

I was a programmer.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

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.