Computers Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

17 Computers quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

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Negroponte’s reflections often orbit the cultural ripple of computing. In this set of seventeen quotes, his forward‑looking optimism and occasional cautionary notes come through clearly.

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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

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We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you…

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“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”

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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

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We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make…

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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

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Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data,…

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To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because…

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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…

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National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up…

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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the…

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In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology…

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Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a…

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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

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Good education has got to be good entertainment.

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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

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Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

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