Casey Neistat Quotes

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

Error is always talkative.

Cut it in half, and then look at it. If it's still moving, cut it in half again.

It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.

I was a programmer.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

I don't know how to turn on a computer.

When somebody is describing their job as fixing problems for someone, that usually does not suggest that they're dealing with their tax returns.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

The biggest challenges are fixing the problems, to put all the puzzles together.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

Twitch has been very hard for me. It makes me feel so stupid. I don't understand it at all... It's very complicated.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

I'm a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don't want software that only does something but doesn't fix the other errors.

Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're playing, the basics are still the basics. Then it's just about adjusting on the day.

I learned HTML in high school and then graduated to CSS. It's a great way to exercise my mind. But it's frustrating as hell.