Computer Literacy Quotes:

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 people become fluent with the machine.

- Seymour Papert

source: "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

topic: Computer Literacy, People, Machines

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

- Nicholas Negroponte

topic: Learning, Technology, Computer, Computing, Computer Literacy

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

topic: Inspiring, Writing, Doe, Computer Literacy

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

- Nicholas Negroponte

topic: Technology, Computer, Literacy, Computer Literacy

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

- Alan Kay

topic: Art, Reading, Writing, Computing, Springboards

Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

- James Paul Gee

topic: Thinking, Playing Games, Design, Lead In, Computer Literacy

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

- Evgeny Morozov

topic: Country, Long, Cyberspace, Invading, Computer Literacy