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
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — 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
I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. — 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
