Quote

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nicholas Negroponte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
Architect
Author
Computer Scientist
Investor
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Ideas
Leaps
Make
Breakthrough
Leap
Among
Ability
Common
Bigs
Originators
Thought
Denominator

More quotes by Nicholas Negroponte

Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
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
Image
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?
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
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.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
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.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
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
Image
Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
Nicholas Negroponte
Image
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.
Nicholas Negroponte