Literacy Quotes
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.6, Vintage
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
"The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Quoted in Observer (London), 14 Oct. 1979
Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row
Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
"A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy". "The Private Dining Room". Book by Ogden Nash, 1953.
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony