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Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

born 1943 United States

Nicholas Negroponte (born 1 December 1943) is a Greek-American computer scientist best known as founder and director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab.

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Also known as: Negroponte, Nicholas

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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

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.

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

One laptop per child: Children are your most precious resource, and they can do a lot of self-learning and peer-to-peer teaching. Bingo. End of story.

Scale will get you strategy.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It's just unbelievably dumb. … [Apple's] building peripherals for iTunes … We can't turn these kids into couch potatoes.

Unlike television — at least as it currently exists — the Internet is a medium of choice.

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Being Digital (1995)

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time — you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.

Isn't it odd how parents grieve if their child spends six hours a day on the 'Net, but are delighted if those same hours are spent reading books?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicholas Negroponte (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.