Learning Design Quotes

#1. Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Andy Hargreaves

#2. Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

David Gelernter

#3. Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Ernie Els

#4. When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

Ira Glass

#5. One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

Cay S. Horstmann

#6. Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

Gregory Kats

#7. I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Tony Hoare

#8. Did you design the door?'
'No.'
'Who did? The Unknown Designer?

Brandon Mull

#9. If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

John Seely Brown

#10. Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Ted Nelson

#11. Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

Bela H. Banathy

#12. I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler

#13. 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

#14. My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Sugata Mitra

#15. Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...

Kent Beck

#16. I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Martin Chalfie

#17. Design is all about learning from doing, that's how we evolve to the best solution.

Tim Brown

#18. A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

Mario Bellini

#19. If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#20. Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Miuccia Prada