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26 quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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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... →

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

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Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way -... →

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We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

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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... →

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

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

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

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It bothers me when people spoil the market.

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Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the... →

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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

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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?'

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