Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child." — 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
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air. — 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
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — 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
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 Image
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — 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
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 Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
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 Image
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
