Alan Kay Quotes

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I'm not very computer savvy.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

I'm the worst at a computer.

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.

Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.

I'm not a big computer person.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable.But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that's true throughout our whole governmental society.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

I should have written books instead of reading them.