BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.