Quotes from Nicholas Negroponte

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.

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

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

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

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

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

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

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?'

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

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

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

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 the road.

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

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.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

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

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

Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.