Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

United States, Architect
December 1, 1943

Nicholas Negroponte is an 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 (OLPC).

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nicholas Negroponte
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

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- People
- Machines
- Serve

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.

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- Ideas
- Training
- Advice
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

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- Future
- Vision
- Peripheral
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

Nicholas Negroponte
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

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

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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

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- Sense
- Bits
- Atoms
Good education has got to be good entertainment.

Nicholas Negroponte