Nicholas Negroponte
United States
Born on 1 Dec 1943
Scientist
Born on 1 Dec 1943
Scientist
Quotes
It is almost genetic in its nature, in that each generation will become more digital than the preceding one.
Like a force of nature, the digital age cannot be denied or stopped. It has four very powerful qualities that will result in its ultimate triumph: decentralizing, globalizing, harmonizing, and empowering.
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
One way to look at the future being digital is to ask if the quality of one medium can be transposed to another.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays