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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
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
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 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
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
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