Nicholas Negroponte Quotes (38 Quotes)


    Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one's studies. Maine's program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

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

    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. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

    Studies have shown that kids take up computers much more easily in the comfort of warm, well-lit rich country living rooms, but also in the slums and remote areas all around the developing world.

    We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,


    Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away.

    If you get those kind of results, I'm going to build the machines. There's enough passion and enough kids that are able to do things they were not able to do before that justifies it.

    Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,

    The idea is to have it play many roles so that the child takes it home, uses it for play, study. The whole theory is that learning is seamless, it's not something you just do at school.

    People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.

    Kids will drive this, ... There's no 16-year-old that's not digital. When someone's kids go to college, parents sign up on America Online to send E-mail to their kids.

    This is not teaching as we know it only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process.

    You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France,


    The initial plan is to start with countries that are big and very different to each other,

    It is going to happen, and if it comes out at 138 so what If it comes out six months late so what I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now I'm a laser.

    I have come to a conclusion that every new release of software is distinctly worse than the other. Why It's because the fat lady can't sing. There's a natural tendency to add stuff. Suddenly it becomes like a very fat person -- uses most of their energy to move the fat. We've gotten to the point where we have to completely rethink.


    This selected group of organizations has shown their commitment and leadership in closing the digital divide in emerging countries, focusing on providing access to life-altering technology and information to children across the globe.

    Children are the greatest natural resource of any country, and educating these children is at the root of solving our largest and most complex problems. Yet the best education may not come from sitting in a traditional classroom, but rather through independent interaction and exploration. The development of a 100 laptop will now make this possible for all kids -- especially those in developing nations.

    It might not be long before we have jackets that can recharge cell phones and you can be sure that is a jacket I'm going to wear more often. In an aging society, it would be remarkable and wonderful if people could buy pants that walk for them. Is the technology there to make walking pants The answer is yes. There could be shoes that teach you how to dance or perhaps they do the dancing for you, you wear them and suddenly you are a good dancer.

    When we talk about an Internet of things, it's not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we smart people know where that dumb thing is. It's about embedding intelligence so things become smarter and do more than they were proposed to do.

    We really believe we can really make literally hundreds of millions of these machines around the world,

    So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it.

    The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills,


    We have been asked directly about this, ... Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

    The idea is that it fulfils many roles. It is the whole theory that learning is seamless,

    I said, 'That's too bad, because I need 100 million a year.' They said, 'Well, maybe we can change our strategic plan.' That's the reason you need scale.

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

    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?'

    I am always asked in my travels through the developing world 'If this is such a good idea, why isn't America doing it' ... Well, now they are.

    Most people don't realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,

    The plan is for the 100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.

    A colleague of mine said it made him think twice about kissing his wife goodbye in the morning,

    I've told the governments that our price will float and go down over time,

    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.

    Red Hat's experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.


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