John Romero Quotes

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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 worked as a programmer for 16 years.

As technologists, we all write code.

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.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

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.

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

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

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I was a programmer.

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.

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.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

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

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.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.