Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponteis a Greek 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
people killers
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.
thinking bigs competing
Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.
years way online
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
believe people world
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
country children president
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."
machines able
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?
entertainment good-education be-good
Good education has got to be good entertainment.
business worst-enemy innovation
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.
powerful wikipedia notion
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
teaching peers computer
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
cutting differences obsolete
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
years design personality
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
kids class want
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
teacher teaching wheels
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.