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Nicholas Negroponte is 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 .



✵ 1. December 1943
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Being Digital
Being Digital
Nicholas Negroponte
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Famous Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

“When you write a computer program you've got to not just list things out and sort of take an algorithm and translate it into a set of instructions. But when there's a bug — and all programs have bugs — you've got to debug it. You've got to go in, change it, and then re-execute … and you iterate. And that iteration is really a very, very good approximation of learning.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_history_of_the_future, July 2014, TED Talks (about 13:40 into 19:43 video).
A 30-year history of the future, TED Talk (2014)

“If you think about it, being digital is Italian. It's underground, provocative, interactive. It has humor, discourse, and debate. It has a kind of liveliness to it.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

“Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It's just unbelievably dumb. … [Apple's] building peripherals for iTunes … We can't turn these kids into couch potatoes.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool http://gigaom.com/2010/09/30/mobilize-2010-negroponte-sees-tablets-as-creative-tool in Gigaom (30 September 2010).

“Personal computers will make our future adult population simultaneously more mathematically able and more visually literate. Ten years from now, teenagers are likely to enjoy a much richer panorama of options because the pursuit of intellectual achievement will not be tilted so much in favor of the bookworm, but instead cater to a wider range of cognitive styles, learning patterns, and expressive behaviors.”

Nicholas Negroponte book Being Digital

Being Digital (1995)

“Isn't it odd how parents grieve if their child spends six hours a day on the 'Net, but are delighted if those same hours are spent reading books?”

Nicholas Negroponte

Attributed

“MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

“You can see the future best through peripheral vision.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Foreword of Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Harvard Business School Press, Revised edition March 2000) ISBN 1578512611.

Future

“True personalization is now upon us. It's not just a matter of selecting relish over mustard once. The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines' understanding individuals with the same degree of subtlety (or more than) we can expect from other human beings, including idiosyncrasies (like always wearing a blue-striped shirt) and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.”

Nicholas Negroponte book Being Digital

Being Digital (1995)

Age , Understanding , Time , Personality

“The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time — you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

Time

“The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.”

Nicholas Negroponte book Being Digital

Being Digital (1995)

Change

“Unlike television — at least as it currently exists — the Internet is a medium of choice.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

“I think the Net is scaling very well. Because of the way it was designed, I don't think it will come to its knees and crash. I see it as very organic in the way it's capable of living and reproducing itself.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

Way , Thinking

“Scale will get you strategy.”

Nicholas Negroponte

The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/311/.

“Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Pricing the Future http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED6-11.html.

People , World , Nature

“I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

Life

“Cyberlaw is global law.”

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm

Law

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