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Explore our hand-picked selection of 76 inspiring quotes by Nicholas Negroponte.

About Nicholas Negroponte

  • Born: December 1, 1943
  • Occupation: Author
    • Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
    School Kids Boring
    Every child in uruguay has a little green laptop.
    Children Green Littles
    In uruguay, the president of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "one laptop per child."
    Country Children President
    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.
    Children Firsts Natural
    Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.
    People Killers
    When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.
    Running Children Passion
    Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. startups have suffered the burst bubble.
    Research Bigs Term
    Mit is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
    Academic Freedom Mit Academic
    Young people, i happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
    Believe People World
    The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
    Organization Ideas People
    While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
    Teacher Teaching Wheels
    [industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
    Years Design Personality
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