World Computer Literacy Day Thoughts, Lines, Quotes & Images
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
“A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.”
“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.”
World Computer Literacy Day Thoughts
“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
Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.
“It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.”
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
The similarities between humans and computers are more numerous than the differences.