Coding Quotes

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

I'm just a little artsy-fartsy computer dude.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.

I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

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 don't like programming. It's tedious.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition.

When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal.

We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

I was a programmer.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

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

I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.