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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits. — Nicholas Negroponte

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy. — Nicholas Negroponte

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte

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?' — Nicholas Negroponte

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. — Nicholas Negroponte

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money. — Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air. — Nicholas Negroponte

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. — Nicholas Negroponte

You can see the future best through peripheral vision. — Nicholas Negroponte

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. — Nicholas Negroponte

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. — Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. — Nicholas Negroponte

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall. — Nicholas Negroponte

Good education has got to be good entertainment. — Nicholas Negroponte

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. — Nicholas Negroponte

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant. — Nicholas Negroponte

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. — Nicholas Negroponte

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. — Nicholas Negroponte

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. — Nicholas Negroponte

It bothers me when people spoil the market. — Nicholas Negroponte

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop. — Nicholas Negroponte

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another. — Nicholas Negroponte

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. — Nicholas Negroponte

Scale will get you strategy. — Nicholas Negroponte

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. — John Negroponte

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — Nicholas Negroponte

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years. — Nicholas Negroponte

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. — Nicholas Negroponte

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas. — Nicholas Negroponte

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself. — Nicholas Negroponte

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people. — Nicholas Negroponte

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. — Nicholas Negroponte

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. — Nicholas Negroponte

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts. — Nicholas Negroponte

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte

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. — Nicholas Negroponte

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child." — Nicholas Negroponte

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. — Nicholas Negroponte

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift. — Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. — Nicholas Negroponte