- "The ability to create and give a good speech, connect with an audience, and organize fun and productive gatherings seem like a suite of skills that A.I. will not replicate."
— Kevin Roose, The New York Times - "While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia."
— Unknown, Free Software Lore - "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
— Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents - "Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult."
— Richard M. Stallman, Free Software, Free Society - "'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'."
— Richard M. Stallman, The Free Software Definition - "We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be."
— Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future - "Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important."
— Bill Gates, Keynote Address - "To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master."
— Richard M. Stallman, GNU Project Philosophy - "Technology will never replace great teachers, but in the hands of great teachers, it’s transformational."
— George Couros, The Innovator's Mindset - "Just as we can’t wait to take action to protect nature, we can’t wait to protect our children’s future."
— Andrea Koehle Jones, The ChariTree Foundation - "The tricky thing is that when it’s wrong, it’s wrong in ways that are difficult to spot."
— James Vincent, The Verge - "A large language model is not capable of conducting independent research or gathering new information."
— Susan D'Agostino, Inside Higher Ed - "Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out."
— Chris Pine, Learn to Program - "Code is read much more often than it is written."
— Guido Van Rossum, Python PEP 8 Guidelines - "Technology can become the ‘wings’ that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before—if we will allow it."
— Jenny Arledge, Educational Technology Publications - "Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance."
— Jon Franklin, Writing for Story - "I think the questionable accuracy of responses provided by ChatGPT is its biggest downside. It means the user is responsible for verifying the information, which takes away the ease people are attributing to ChatGPT."
— Daniel Ruby, Demand Sage - "We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly."
— Anne Marie Bonneau, Zero Waste Chef - "Technology will not replace teachers, but teachers who use technology will replace those who do not."
— Ray Clifford, Educational Leadership - "We cannot teach students well if we do not know them well."
— Barbara Means, Digital Promise - "The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
— Jean Piaget, To Understand Is to Invent - "Just because a LLM can generate coherent text about medicine or law doesn’t mean it grasps those professional domains."
— I. Almeida, Notes on AI Limits - "Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
— Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - "The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."
— Richard Rogers, Architecture: A Modern View - "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead, Earth Day Address - "AI feels mundane. It just feels like using any other technology. So we really need to reckon with our own expectations, turn down the hype, and close the gap between what we imagine and what the reality is."
— James Vincent, The Verge - "Curse of the self-taught: fear that you know only points here and there, islands of knowledge, and between them are chasms into which you will fall in humiliating failure."
— Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine - "We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing."
— Angel Gurría, OECD Environmental Outlook - "Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it."
— Patrick McKenzie, Kalzumeus Software Blog - "People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
— Adam Osborne, Tech Commentary - "LLMs only possess statistical knowledge about word patterns, not true comprehension of ideas, facts, or emotions."
— I. Almeida, Reflections on Large Language Models - "It is critical to recognize the limitations of LLMs from a consumer perspective."
— I. Almeida, Consumer Tech Awareness - "Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."
— Steve Jobs, The Lost Interview (1995) - "One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference— all the difference in the world!"
— Dr. Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope - "A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."
— Doug Linder, Software Engineering Maxims - "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
— Robert M. Hutchins, The Learning Society - "The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring - "The most important skill for a computer scientist is problem-solving."
— Bill Gates, CS Education Advocacy - "The solutions of tomorrow are not stashed behind the walls of bureaucracy or political halls. They are in the minds of engineers, designers, innovators, researchers, environmentalists, geographers and other spirited individuals."
— Stuart Barea, Environmental Activism Speeches - "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
— Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - "This is the new politics: personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper."
— Hilary Benn, UK Climate Conference Address - "AI is not just about replicating human intelligence; it’s about creating intelligent systems that can surpass human limitations."
— Yann LeCun, Meta AI Research Talks - "Machine thinking is great for understanding the behavioral patterns across populations. It is not great for understanding the unique individual right in front of you."
— Stephen Goforth, Goforth Solutions - "If you train an AI on biased data, it will give you biased results."
— Timnit Gebru, DAIR Institute Presentations - "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
— Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming - "Technology in the classroom is NOT the end goal. Enabling learning everywhere is the goal."
— Andrew Barras, EdTech Review - "Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."
— Richard M. Stallman, The GNU Manifesto - "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science - "Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad."
— Cory House, Clean Code Talks - "Classrooms don’t need tech geeks who can teach. We need teaching geeks who can use tech."
— David Geurin, Future Driven - "When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."
— Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) - "One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source."
— Linus Torvalds, Open Source Summits