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With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.

With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

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

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.

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.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

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

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.