Computer Education Quotes

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

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.

I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.

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'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

I didn't even have a computer until I was twenty years old.

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

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.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

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

When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated.

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