Abstract Quote by Seymour Papert

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning…

— Maya Hawke

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

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

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite…

— Joan Didion

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

— Ted Sizer

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

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough…

— Paul A. Baran

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's…

— Jeff Bollow

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

— Sherry Turkle

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it…

— Robin Wells

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed…

— Larry Page