Ted Nelson Quotes

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

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'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.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

I was a programmer.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

I am a programmer.

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

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

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

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

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.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

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.