Steve Blank Quotes

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

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.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

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.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Code writers, they are my idols.

We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our deals team and our designers all have GitHub accounts and they go into the code base.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

I originally studied graphic design and video production. I had wanted to be a programmer - I loved development and coding - but it turned out that I really enjoyed doing the frontend more than backend development.

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

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 think everyone should learn how to code.

Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up. By writing code, I learned how to bring my dreams to life, how to budget, and how to build stuff. Whatever path you choose in life - being an artist, an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a politician, you will give yourself a huge leg up if you learn how to code.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

I will be seen as a software engineer in 'Betaludu.' My character is totally different from what I have played in the past.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.

New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

As technologists, we all write code.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.