Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

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.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.