Hikaru Nakamura Quotes

I've always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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 got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

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.

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

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

I love software and I love technology.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

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

Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.