Walter O'Brien Quotes

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

Windows 95 had its 20th anniversary last year, so we got our hands on an old system and showed it to teenagers who were not even alive in 1995. The results were pretty great and also makes you feel quite old.

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer.

I originally studied graphic design and video production. I had wanted to be a programmer - I loved development and coding - but it turned out that I really enjoyed doing the frontend more than backend development.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.

Yeah, I love Ethereum. I love coding.

Software is the language of automation.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.