Aaron Koblin Quotes

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.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

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

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.

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.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

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

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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.

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.

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.

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

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

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.

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

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

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