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

The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles. — Walter Russell Mead

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. — Camille Paglia

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert

Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw. — Stephen Covey

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. — Seymour Papert

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift

They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason ... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself! — Jaeda DeWalt

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. — Seymour Papert

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

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

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world. — Aung San Suu Kyi

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something. — Seymour Papert

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

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. — Seymour Papert

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something. - Seymour Papert — Anonymous

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge. — Seymour Papert

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need. — Heather Graham

Material things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. There are some I dearly wish might be spared. — Marilynne Robinson

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

When the world hands you lemons ... send that back fam ... seriously where's the return address. — Me

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. — Seymour Papert

The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. — Barack Obama

Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple. — Daniel Norris

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

Trying to show people how talented and bright you are is the best way to make an idiot of yourself, and we ended up doing that with flying colors. — Paul Stanley

When I was arrested I was dressed in black — Johnny Cash

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him. — Chris Matthews

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices. — Fulton J. Sheen