Jenova Chen Quotes

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

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.

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

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.

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

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

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.

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.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

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.

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.