Charles Petzold Quotes

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.

Free lunches don't come cheap.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

You probably don't have much of a choice.