Steve Jurvetson Quotes

I am a programmer.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

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.

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 wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

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.

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

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

I was a programmer.

My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University.

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.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

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.

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.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

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

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.