Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

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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.
• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to…
• The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
• Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
• When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and…
• Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.
• By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
• If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the…
• Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
• You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
• We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
• MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to…
• Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will…
• Good education has got to be good entertainment.
• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger…
• Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
• Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is…
• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the…

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