If you start early enough, every human is programmable.

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.

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

Everybody should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.

To program is to translate between the chaos of human life and the line-by-line world of computer language.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.

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.

You can and must understand computers now!

To program is to understand.

Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.

The reason everybody signed up for a computer was that everybody else was signing up for a computer.

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals.