147 Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,

Children are the greatest natural resource of any country, and educating these children is at the root of solving our largest and most complex problems. Yet the best education may not come from sitting in a traditional classroom, but rather through independent interaction and exploration. The development of a $100 laptop will now make this possible for all kids -- especially those in developing nations.

I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.