Justine Bateman Quotes

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Seventy percent of our people of Maine touch a computer at least once a day in their jobs.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.