The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of… — 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
