Jensen Huang Quotes

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

It is a shame that homebrew development can't be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with.

There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

Developers, developers, developers...

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.