Naval Ravikant Quotes

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

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'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.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

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

I think everyone should learn how to code.

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

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

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.

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.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

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

Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

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.