Activity Quote by Alan Kay

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Tobias Lutke

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people…

— Tobias Lutke

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help…

— Seymour Papert

“We’ve spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That’s precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.”

— Peter Lucas

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about…

— David Gelernter

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster…

— Douglas Engelbart

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

— Robert McNamara

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.”

— John Humphrys

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

— Boris Spassky

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work…

— Michael Craig-Martin