Reshma Saujani Quotes

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.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

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 don't know how to code. I should know how to code.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

As technologists, we all write code.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.