Niklaus Wirth Quotes

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

I am a programmer.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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

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.

My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University.

As technologists, we all write code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

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.

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

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.

Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

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.

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.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.