Rick Smolan Quotes

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

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 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.

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 love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

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.

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

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

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

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

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

I love software and I love technology.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

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

I'm not technical.

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.

I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.