Nicholas Negroponte
Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
— Nicholas Negroponte
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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.
— Nicholas Negroponte
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
— Nicholas Negroponte
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
— Nicholas Negroponte
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
— Nicholas Negroponte
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
— Nicholas Negroponte