You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.

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.

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

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.