Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

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 think everyone should learn how to code.

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.

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.

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

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

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our deals team and our designers all have GitHub accounts and they go into the code base.

I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

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.

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

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up. By writing code, I learned how to bring my dreams to life, how to budget, and how to build stuff. Whatever path you choose in life - being an artist, an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a politician, you will give yourself a huge leg up if you learn how to code.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

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.

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

C++ is a pile of crap.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.