Brianna Wu Quotes

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 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.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

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.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

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

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

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

When my mom travelled, she would bring me basketball tapes.