Perspective Is Worth 80 Iq

There Is The Desire Of A Consumer Society To Have No Learning Curves. This Tends To Result In Very Dumbed-down Products That Are Easy To Get Started On, But Are Generally Worthless And/or Debilitating.

The Most Disastrous Thing That You Can Ever Learn Is Your First Programming Language.

I Made Up The Term "object-oriented," And I Can Tell You I Did Not Have C++ In Mind.

In Our Society We Have Hard Nerds And Soft Nerds. The Hard Nerds Are The Ones Who Used To Have The Slide Rules At Their Belt; Now They Have Calculators. The Soft Nerds Are The Ones Who Get Violently Ill Whenever Anybody Mentions An Integral Sign.

Computer Literacy Is A Contact With The Activity Of Computing Deep Enough To Make The Computational Equivalent Of Reading And Writing Fluent And Enjoyable. As In All The Arts, A Romance With The Material Must Be Well Under Way. If We Value The Lifelong Learning Of Arts And Letters As A Springboard For Personal And Societal Growth, Should Any Less Effort Be Spent To Make Computing A Part Of Our Lives?