Nicholas Negroponte quotes - page 2

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air. (Nicholas Negroponte)

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?'

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My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

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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 and order can only come from centralism.

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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

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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 then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

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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 plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

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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 depend on the community to make software for it.

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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 way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

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

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Photo: Gin Kai, U.S. Naval Academy, Photographic Studio, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Businessman
Born: December 1, 1943
Quotes count: 36
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