“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.” PeopleThinkingSchoolMiddleInternetComputerMessagesHigh SchoolBoardsMiddle School Author:Sara Paxton
“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.” WritingYearsPlayWould BeSchoolTypeComputerEightPlaywright Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.” SchoolSubjectsComputer Author:Matt Frewer
“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.” WayWritingSelfRunningAbleSchoolYoungNovelFitTenComputerPagesMovedLengthPensElectricAmazedFountainNotebookTypewritersPretentiousDipMoved OnDiscsProcessorsGambitFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Charles de Lint
“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.” NeedsStillsCountryWholeSchoolLanguageSocialGoalTeachGenerationsTeachingStageTaughtSkillsConflictComputerSurvivalFocusedPsychologicalPostsGermanyAddressesResolutionTeamworkTechnologicalWorkplaceGrammarCompetenceNeglectedThis GenerationConflict ResolutionComputer LanguageGrammar SchoolBreadwinnerPsychological Needs Author:Warren Farrell
“There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.” ThinkingWorldMayImportantProblemSchoolTeacherComputerThirdsTendenciesDistractionThird WorldWorld Problems Author:Terry Winograd
“A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.” KnowsLooksSchoolFourDadComputerHundredMy DadParksApartmentLook At MeBucksDonate Author:Gilbert Arenas
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.” SchoolFormLawLife IsCertainThreeEnergyProcessPayCarPositionTaxesBenefitsComputerUselessFacultyTransformedQuantityFringeInaccessibleMetabolismThermodynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.” ThinkingSchoolJobsSkillsComputerHigh School Author:Steve Wozniak
“I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.” NeedsGivingShouldSchoolComputerDecidedMore MoneyLabsSchool Districts Author:Steve Wozniak
“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.” SchoolStrongCreativityComputerLibraryWaveLiteracyReservationsUndercut Author:Clifford Stoll
“I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.” SchoolTvsInternetComputerHigh SchoolPhonesCreditCardsCellsTapeCablesCell PhoneCredit CardCassettesCable TvCassette Tapes Author:Jeffrey Gitomer
“Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsUseHomeKidsSchoolCertainStuffWatchesFansFrontsTvsInternetComputerChecksComing HomeSiteEmailBlogsClipFlickerInteractiveTwitter And Facebook Author:Jimmy Fallon
“When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.” SchoolGamesStuffHoursGrowing UpGrowingImagineComputerClubsChessLoudLatinCampsNerdOutcastArcades Author:Chris Hardwick
“Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.” TryingYearsKidsTodaySchoolTeachTomorrowComputerTrainingHigh SchoolWorkforceMainframe Author:Bill Gates
“I feel education is more important even now for the younger generation than when I was younger. The kids really need to buckle down and get a good education. That's why it's so important to have computer programs and good tutoring programs, so they can have fun in school. It also keeps them out of trouble.” NeedsFeelsImportantKidsSchoolFunGenerationsTroubleComputerProgramDown AndHaving FunYounger GenerationGood EducationBuckles Author:Albert Belle
“I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.” SchoolComputerHigh SchoolCrewNerdComputer Science Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.” NeedsGivingCountryKidsSchoolJobsOpportunityCommunityPathFocusStudentsCollegeReadyRight NowDegreesComputerHigh SchoolGermanyGraduatesEngineeringAssociatesGood JobBrooklynOur CommunityDiplomaCommunity CollegeHigh School StudentsHigh School Diploma Author:Barack Obama
“Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.” SchoolScienceComputerMajorsHigh SchoolProgrammingComputer ScienceStanford Author:Clara Shih
“I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.” IfsKnowsWorldWritingHelpingKidsSchoolReadingCenturyCoupleComputerHigh SchoolChecksCanadaSpells21st CenturySeminarsSpell Check Author:Stephen King
“We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.” ChildrenSchoolComputerOur ChildrenSafetyFollowingParksWorkplaceEpidemicsPredatorWorkplace Safety Author:Jon Porter
“Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.” SchoolComputerGradGrad School Author:Richard Powers
“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?” ThinkingWorldWantKidsAgeTodaySchoolGrowsCan DoHoursGrowing UpComputerBirthday60th BirthdayCurfew Author:James Hillman
“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...” KindDifferentWarSchoolCultureGamesStarsTermCreativeGenerationsEvolutionInternetElementsComputerErasPostsCinemaThrownAffectedFilmmakingGeekExplosionsBlockbusterComputer Games Author:Simon Pegg
“I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.” RealSchoolGirlComputerHotEngineeringComputer ScienceShortageHot Girl Author:Joe Manganiello
“Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.” NeedsSchoolTeachComputerPhysicsCoreBiologyChemistryComputer ScienceCurriculumAlgebra Author:Brad Feld
“We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!” IfsNeedsWritingChildrenSchoolAmericaChoicesParentTeachFineSkillsSafeComputerGainsPublic SchoolMarketplaceParentalArithmeticFaith Based Author:J. C. Watts
“Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."” WellsSaidSchoolHouseDadCostComputerHigh SchoolMy DadSomedayApartment Author:Steve Wozniak
“When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.” GivingKindEndsUseSchoolFilmUsedNightStuffKnowingSpecialEffectsComputerToolsArchitectureFeaturesBoardsDigitalSquaresPencilsDomainSpecial EffectsShort FilmsDraftingAliasesArchitecture SchoolDigital Tools Author:Joseph Kosinski
“When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.” MadeSchoolComputerClubsChessGradesGoing AwayLatinCampsGrades In School Author:Chris Hardwick
“A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don't have a clue as to how to play anything. That's probably one of the problems. They don't know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They're not starting from that same school of thought.” PeopleKnowsPlayProblemSchoolKnow HowGenerationsComputerInstrumentsStartingMelodyClueChordsNew GenerationWorking With OthersPlaying Instruments Author:Ray Parker, Jr.
“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.” IfsWayChildrenSchoolHouseLanguageNaturalComputerTreatsProgrammingExploringBureaucracyCompetentComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesLogos Author:Seymour Papert
“Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.” IfsWantWritingHandsKidsSchoolSubjectsComputerOppositesWhat You WantAbstractEssaysLabsProcessing Author:Seymour Papert
“I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.” SchoolTaughtCollegeComputerHigh SchoolStuckProgrammingComputer ScienceTaught UsElementary School Author:Masi Oka
“Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.” FeelsWritingLooksI CanSchoolComputerHigh SchoolNakedPencilsNotebookPolishedSpirals Author:Lily King
“The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.” WritingStillsSchoolNightRocksComputerUniversityHallsCampusMichiganUniversity Of Michigan Author:Davy Rothbart
“When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.” IfsTodayWantedSchoolCultureTechnologyComputerObsessedNerdGadgets Author:Chris Hardwick
“It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.” WellsArtStatesHelpingSchoolLawLanguagePlansFiguresStudentsReadySucceedComputerDefinitionsGuaranteesFundSuggestionsGeographyComputer ScienceForeign LanguageWell RoundedSchool Districts Author:Elizabeth Blair Lee
“There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".” WantLooksEndsSchoolFunClassStudyPsychologyCrazyPeriodsEasierComputerHigh SchoolWork OutMathDrawingPhysicsNerdyHigh School Ending Author:James Pearse Connelly
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?” HumansSchoolLanguageResponsibilityProgressFrontsComputerAspectTreatsBasesMathematicsBasics Author:Michal Rovner
“You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.” KnowsTwoCountrySchoolValuesBehindsKnow HowSuccessfulComputerMessagesBuiltDecadesIronPushingCurtainsPublic SchoolComputer ScienceDevelopersGdpEbaySkypeIron CurtainEstoniaEstonians Author:Alexis Ohanian
“It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.” ChildrenSaidSchoolParentNeededComputerFinancialLiteracyRespondingCurriculumFinancial Literacy Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.” PeopleThinkingReasonSchoolComputerHigh SchoolScientistThink Of MeBiologist Author:Bill Skarsgard
“Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.” PeopleWorldSchoolChurchCarChangedInternetComputerLibraryAngstLiving Room Author:Tricia Rhodes
“We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.” MeanKidsSchoolCommunityComputerTraining Author:Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
“You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.” SchoolCollegeComputerComputer ScienceBerkeley Author:Jonathan Blow
“I was shocked when I looked at art schools in France. There's only one left that does anatomy. Now they do video. They do editing. I would go to film school if I wanted to do video and editing. In art school, it's only new mediums. It's three-dimensional or computer. I found that shocking. No nudes.” ArtSchoolFilmComputerAnatomy Author:Lou Doillon
“Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.” WritingFeelingsSchoolBrainComputerHigh SchoolNotebook Author:Lily King
“My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.” WellsRealSchoolTermParticularTheoryInvolvedComputerFunctionComplexityProgrammingGraduatesHierarchyTheoreticalGraduate School Author:Dennis Ritchie
“Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder” TryingSchoolFeltSixComputerTestsHarderCaughtHackingArtemis Author:Eoin Colfer