Masi Oka Quotes

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

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.

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.

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

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

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.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

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.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

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 always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

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.

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

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I actually am a computer nerd.