Rob Glaser Quotes

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 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'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.

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.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

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

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer.

I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.

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.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

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.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

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.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

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

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.