Nicholas Negroponte

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it…

— Nicholas Negroponte

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

— Nicholas Negroponte

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data,…

— Nicholas Negroponte

When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of…

— Nicholas Negroponte

There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

— Nicholas Negroponte

“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”

— Nicholas Negroponte

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with…

— Nicholas Negroponte

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic…

— Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

— Nicholas Negroponte

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not…

— Nicholas Negroponte

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through…

— Nicholas Negroponte

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting…

— Nicholas Negroponte

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

— Nicholas Negroponte

I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website…

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

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