Nicholas Negroponte
If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Organization
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.Collection: Cutting
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Zero
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Phones
Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.Collection: Morning
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.Collection: Kids
Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.Collection: Children
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."Collection: Country
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.Collection: People
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.Collection: Running
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.Collection: School
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Trying
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.Collection: Research
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.Collection: Powerful
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.Collection: Islands
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.Collection: Car
Scale will get you strategy.Collection: Strategy
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.Collection: Views
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Worry
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.Collection: Elements
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.Collection: Girl
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.Collection: Military
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.Collection: Teacher
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.Collection: Years