Being Quote by Alexandra Elbakyan

I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.

— Ritesh Agarwal

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

— Masi Oka

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

— Vatsal Sheth

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

— Steve Jurvetson

I was a programmer.

— Paul Allen

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

— W. Richard Stevens

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

— Richard Powers

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

— James Gosling

My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in…

— Kimberly Bryant

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

— Gopi Sundar

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making music and…

— Cuco