All Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
- It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. Become Human
- 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… Base
- The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. Century
- Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. Computer
- Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. Activism
- 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… Activism
- 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. All
- By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another. American
- 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… Any
- Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. Believe
- You can see the future best through peripheral vision. Best
- 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? Able
- MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. Academic
- 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… Acceptable
- 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… Become Possible
- Good education has got to be good entertainment. Education
- 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… Always Includes
- Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years. Military
- 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… Age
- 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… Agreement
- Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. Allows
- A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea… Aegean
- By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. Developed
- This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. Beginning
- Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. All