Valerie Jarrett Quotes

As technologists, we all write code.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

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

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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.

I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't code. I just didn't have the patience for it.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

You can learn how to code today. You can build this same thing that you're looking at every day, that you're tweeting on, that you're snapping on, and I feel like that conversation needs to be had.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.

I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.

Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.