Jacky Rosen Quotes

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.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

I am a programmer.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

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.

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

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

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

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

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.

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.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

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.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

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

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

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.

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.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.