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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
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[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