"I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, should learn a computer language, because it teaches you how to think."

“I taught myself how to program computers when I was a kid, bought my first computer when I was 10, and sold my first commercial program when I was 12.”

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”

"I wrote my first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe. The computer I used was huge and cumbersome and slow and absolutely compelling."