Conceptual Learning Quotes

#1. A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

#2. I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. Didn't know what was important and what was trivial. They couldn't remember what mattered. Without a conceptual framework in which to embed what they were learning, they were effectively amnesics.

Joshua Foer

#4. The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

Donald A. Norman

#5. People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

Damian Thompson

#6. Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

James Jannard

#7. I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

Thora Birch

#8. You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

George Eliot