Bill Gates Quotes

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.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

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

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

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.

Even if you're going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking and being able to process information and break it down is important no matter what you're doing. Having that knowledge of code is something that you can apply to your daily life.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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.

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

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.

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.

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

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

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

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.