Nicholas Negroponte Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”

“Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”

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

“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.”

“Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.”

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

“We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.”

“Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.”

“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.”

“My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.”