147 Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

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.

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

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

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 place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

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 start to become possible.

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

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.