MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. — 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
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
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make… — 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… — 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
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
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure… — 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
