Meryl Streep: It’s inspiring I think, to kids who watch this, whose parents say, you know “Go into computing”. If you have that feeling, if you want to express yourself. If you want to sing or you want to paint or you want to act…Or you want to make a film. Do it. Do it, do it, do it. You know? We need more artists. Because that’s the food of the culture.

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ohhaicody:

Meryl Streep interviewed at The Kennedy Center Honors.

Love her.

Meryl Streep=instant reblog every time I see her on my dash

Also she is adorable. “Go into computing”. Does… anybody say that? Did anybody ever say that?

I was reading this totally the wrong way to start with: I love programming, it’s one of the ways I express myself creatively, and I’m really grateful that my parents (who have a fine arts background) encouraged me in it. As it was I still could easily have slipped into a humanities degree instead of the computer science/pure maths major of my heart. (I love art, too, but I would have hated studying it or doing it as a career)

I mean, I get her point. But computing is awesome too :P