Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the… — 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
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the… — 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
