“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'” ThinkingWantLifeNeedsGivingSaidPayTechnologyHavensCollegeBuiltSillyHeyDumbThey SaidPredictionsSalaryNeed YouFundingAmazing ThingsCrazy IdeasDon't Need YouInventing ThingsAtari Author:Steve Jobs
“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.” UseTodaySchoolCareersTechnologyCenturyStudentsCollegeModelsSmartInstructionFactories21st CenturyUse Of Technology Author:Arne Duncan
“Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.” ThinkingEnoughGirlGamesBoysCareersTechnologyViolenceInformationCollegeInvolvedComputerEnough TimeInformation TechnologyComputingComputer Games Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III
“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.” NeedsChildrenEducationClassTechnologyDemocracyCollegeMembersDegreesLaborIndiaOur ChildrenAncientAvailableDistinctionContemptGraduatesElitesManualsCastesCollege EducationCondemningElitismSnobberyCollege DegreeCollege GraduatesManual LaborAncient IndiaClass DistinctionHigh Technology Book:Lump It Or Leave It Source: Lump It Or Leave It
“In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.” ImportantAgeYoungUsedGuySocialTechnologyMediaCollegeKeysCamerasSocial MediaVideoExpensiveMold Author:Ronnie Dunn
“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.” KnowsMayWarFeelingsHateNaturalCitiesFictionTechnologyCollegeProudMajorsBlameScience FictionCriticsPhysicsSuitsGentlemanDullBrownChemistryDespiseEngineersPersistBe ProudImpressiveRespectableCreepyRefrigeratorsEnglish MajorQuads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.” YearsBookAgePastTechnologyStudentsCollegeConversationEmpathyPercentArguingVulnerableDigitalDeclineDigital AgeCollege StudentsMarkers Author:Judy Woodruff
“In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.” WorldMadeWarAmericaTechnologyCollegeSucceedCommitmentScientistBillsWar Of The WorldsProductiveWorld War IiWorld War IEngineersMarketplaceCollege EducationGis Author:Barack Obama
“I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.” IfsWayWritingImportantIdeasSchoolLanguageRealizingTechnologyCollegeExpressionCommunicationImportant ThingsClarityEvolveStraightforwardGradGrad School Author:Elif Batuman