Argument Quote by David Gelernter

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.…

— Alan Kay

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

— Tobias Lutke

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

— John Humphrys

Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is…

— Seymour Papert

It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding.…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

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

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

— Steve Jobs

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they…

— Guy Debord

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,…

— Sugata Mitra