Peggy Johnson Quotes

Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

One of the things that has benefited me in my career is being part of the new age of technology: the ability growing up to get on the Internet at friends' houses and go on YouTube and watch videos of great players.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.