Simone Giertz Quotes

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.

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

As technologists, we all write code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

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.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.