Quotes About Development

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

That computer was made in Alabama

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

A better you means a better universe.