• 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?

    Alan Kay: 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?