Quotes About Computers And Education

#1. The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

Sherry Turkle

#2. We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Nicholas Negroponte

#3. I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

Tyler Cowen

#4. The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Oren Peli

#5. As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

Deena Kastor

#6. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

#7. There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Howard Aiken

#8. Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading ... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

Harold Bloom

#9. Pay attention to proverbs.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the man who is honestly ashamed has begun to be clean.

George MacDonald

#11. A lot of people mock fandom and fan fiction, like it's lazy to base your own creativity and passion on someone else's work. But some of us need a stepping-stone to start. What's wrong with finding joy in making something, regardless of the inspiration?

Felicia Day

#12. Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.

Werley Nortreus

#13. The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#14. Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

Conrad Wolfram

#15. Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Kent Conrad

#16. I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#17. If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca