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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.

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

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

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 could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

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

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

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.

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.