7 Quotes & Sayings By Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte is an art and technology entrepreneur, who has founded over fifty companies. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, where he develops cutting-edge technologies such as the still camera, paperless office, and digital libraries. He is also a founder and chairman of the board of directors of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation.

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Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. Nicholas Negroponte
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. Nicholas Negroponte
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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
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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. Nicholas Negroponte
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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 laptop. Nicholas Negroponte