Mitchel Resnick famous quotes
05-17-2025
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I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
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I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
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I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.
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With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.
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When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.
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Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
-- Mitchel Resnick
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.
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When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
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I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
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I don't know anything about computers.
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Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
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I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
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Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
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