Clara Shih Quotes

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

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 think everyone should learn how to code.

I am a programmer.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

I'm a tech geek.

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.

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

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

I'm a geek. A techie geek.