When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree with you. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient’s point of view, that’s zero. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It’s in the education business. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
Linux is its own worst enemy: it’s splintered, it has different distributions, it’s too complex to run for most people. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn’t have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They’re going to adopt e-books much faster than we do. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
