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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.
Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?
I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.
We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.
We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves.
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.
I'm not good at Blackberrys, cell phones, or packing.
I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.
I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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.
Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. I learned how to fly a hot air balloon when I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!
If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
I never really feel old. Young 'til I die, minus some Internet-speak misunderstandings.
I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
