Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to…

- Nicholas Negroponte

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can ha…

- Nicholas Negroponte

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be …

- Nicholas Negroponte

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 sta…

- Nicholas Negroponte

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

- Nicholas Negroponte

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas,…

- Nicholas Negroponte

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 c…

- Nicholas Negroponte

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

- Nicholas Negroponte

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

- Nicholas Negroponte