Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.