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The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.