Latest Nicholas Negroponte Quotes from Interviews

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• The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Wikipedia, Notion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

• I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Careers, Income, Needs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Google, Advertising

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

• I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Trying, Sometimes, Form

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

• I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Economic Models, Television, Advertising

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, Eggs, White

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, People, Omelets

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Phones, People, Wire

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Zero, Media, Way

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Book, Mean, Paper

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Morning, Children, School

  Source: bigthink.com

• Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Children, Green, Littles

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Class, Asking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Country, Children, President

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• 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.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Running, Children, Passion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  People, Killers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Girl, Children, Sibling

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  School, Kids, Boring

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Memories, Moving, Technology

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Country, Taken, Childhood

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Debugging, Facts, Behavior

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.