“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.” — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share
