Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponteis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
country children president
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."
ships atoms bits
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
ideas advice training
My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
vision peripheral-vision
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
dream children crazy
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.
kids community laptops
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
worry want today
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.
drinking sea design
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.
issues world laptops
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.
kids school boring
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
children firsts natural
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
military years wind
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
entertainment good-education be-good
Good education has got to be good entertainment.
elements problem bigs
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.