All Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
- My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of… Advice
- My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. Business
- Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air. Access
- I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas. Good
- Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. Complex
- The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. Brings
- Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst… Big
- Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish… Any
- It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to… Breath
- Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization… Assumption
- Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable… All
- Scale will get you strategy. Inspirational
- Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of… Ago
- Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Any
- Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy. Business
- Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. Big
- It bothers me when people spoil the market. Bothers
- We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. All
- One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids… Answer
- Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them… Analyzing