Howard Aiken Quotes

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

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

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.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

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

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can't get enough of him.

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.

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.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

I don't really love computers.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

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.

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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.

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.