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Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) 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 (OLPC).

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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

Vision, Peripheral Vision, See, Future, Peripheral

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

Child, Children, Green, Littles, Uruguay

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.

Children, Drop, Girl, Girls, School, Sibling

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

Atoms, Bits, Ship, Ships

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.

Bigs, Competing, Granularity, Local, Thinking, Wrong

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

Good, Networks, Order, Self, Social, Top Down

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

Access, Air, Breathing, Kids, Like

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Community, Depend, Kids, Same, World

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.

Children, Learning, Passion, Run, Running

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

Order, People, Needs, Serve

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?

Answers, Doors, Fire, See, Staff, Stoke

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Computer, Computer Literacy, Literacy, Should, Sort, Technology

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.

Atoms, Consequences, Differences, Unstoppable, Yesterday

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Distributions, Enemy, People, Running, Splintered, Worst Enemy

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Ideas, Laptops, Selling

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Design, Drinking, Fresh, Sea, Urchins, Wired

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Car, Cost, Electronics, Exceeds, Stall

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.

Close, Interface, Today, Want, Whole, Worry

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Back, Kind, Laptops, Seamless

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.

Behavior, Debugging, Fact, Facts, Program

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