States Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

Good education has got to be good entertainment.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

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