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 NegroponteProgramming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
Nicholas NegroponteThe wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.
Nicholas NegroponteTo 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