147 Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

Most people don't realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,

I am always asked in my travels through the developing world: 'If this is such a good idea, why isn't America doing it?' ... Well, now they are.

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

It is going to happen, and if it comes out at $138 so what? If it comes out six months late so what? I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now I'm a laser.

I said, 'That's too bad, because I need 100 million a year.' They said, 'Well, maybe we can change our strategic plan.' That's the reason you need scale.

People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.

Red Hat's experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.

We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,