Aaron Stanford Quotes

I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

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.

I'm the worst at a computer.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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.

I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy and knew how to make it work for me.

I'm not a big computer person.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

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 use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.

I'm not very computer savvy.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

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.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.