Alexandra Elbakyan Quotes

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

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.

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.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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.

Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers.

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

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

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.

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

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

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.

The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

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

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.

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

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.