Author: Nicholas Negroponte

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

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

- Nicholas Negroponte

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

- Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

- Nicholas Negroponte

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

- Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

- Nicholas Negroponte

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

- Nicholas Negroponte

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

- Nicholas Negroponte

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

- Nicholas Negroponte

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