Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. — 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
