Young Programmers Gifts

"I want software that will lock my parents out of my computer."

"This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I told you to go outside and play."

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

Boy and girl at thier studies

'You don't have to explain the software to me. I wrote it while I was in the womb.'

'I've told you it's not the old pencil and paper battleships.'

"It seems as if the people taking my software class are getting younger and younger."

Four children playing the flute.

"I can't find my other boot. I need to be rebooted."

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

'I'd like to challenge the test.'

Baby Screen Time

"Yes, you were born into the era of passwords and user-names. . . why do you ask, Mycat_2014?"

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

'How much stuff can I get away with and still go to heaven?'

"The old tricks, young fellow, have served me well."

Modern Day Kids Playing 'Telephone'

You don't have to explain the software to me. I wrote it.

'Yeah, bit how does the stork get into the maternity room?'

"Daddy, instead of the princess story tonight, can you explain how and why manifest destiny eliminated the American Indians?"

"When Junior was small his first words were Dot Com."

"I dreamt I went to school without my phone!"

Modern Childhood

'I preferred his earlier work.'

Today at school...we did algorithms for Quantum computation.

Fossil hunting

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

A martial arts student saws a block of wood in half

"Look. He's just created his first text output object."

'It's amazing - He can't even tell time, yet he can program the VCR.'

'Junior wrote his first memo today!'

'He's not potty trained yet but he defragged the computer.'

"This is it? No video?"