A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

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.

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

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.