Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.