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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

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For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most…
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for…
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game…
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what…
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of…
You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

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When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful… — Richard Stallman
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead… — Nathaniel Borenstein
It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future.… — Charles H. Moore
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. — Jamie Zawinski
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. — Edsger Dijkstra
The greatest single programming language ever designed — Alan Kay

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