Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

“Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.”

“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”

“Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.”

“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down t...”

“Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”

“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 laptop.”

“Scale will get you strategy.”

“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 Krumr...”

“Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.”

“You can see the future best through peripheral vision.”

“Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It's just unbelievably dumb. … [Apple's] building peripherals for iTunes … We can't turn these kids into couch potatoes.”

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

“The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time — you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.”

“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.”

“I think the Net is scaling very well. Because of the way it was designed, I don't think it will come to its knees and crash. I see it as very organic in the way it's capable of living and reproduci...”

“Cyberlaw is global law.”

“Unlike television — at least as it currently exists — the Internet is a medium of choice.”

“If you think about it, being digital is Italian. It's underground, provocative, interactive. It has humor, discourse, and debate. It has a kind of liveliness to it.”

“The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.”

“True personalization is now upon us. It's not just a matter of selecting relish over mustard once. The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines' understanding individuals with...”