Russell Banks Quotes

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

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

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

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.

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 just write mechanical things.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

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 computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

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

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.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

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.

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

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

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.