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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?

The Only Way You Can Predict The Future Is To Build It.

If You're Not Failing 90% Of The Time, Then You're Probably Not Working On Sufficiently Challenging Problems.

Most Creativity Is A Transition From One Context Into Another Where Things Are More Surprising. There’s An Element Of Surprise, And Especially In Science, There Is Often Laughter That Goes Along With The "aha." Art Also Has This Element. Our Job Is To Remind Us That There Are More Contexts Than The One That We’re In - The One That We Think Is Reality.

The Flip Side Of The Coin Was That Even Good Programmers And Language Designers Tended To Do Terrible Extensions When They Were In The Heat Of Programming, Because Design Is Something That Is Best Done Slowly And Carefully.