Negroponte Laptop Quotes & Sayings

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. — Jack Welch

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool. — Elvis Presley

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal. — Pat Conroy

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. — Thomas Ken

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child." — Nicholas Negroponte

Words matter. Words make ideas. They preserve truths and history. They express freedom and they shape it. Words mold our thoughts. That gives them value and power. — Gregory Scott Katsoulis

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. — Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. — Nicholas Negroponte

Compared with the addiction to perfect forms, cocaine is a pastime for stationmasters. But — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop. — Nicholas Negroponte

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it. — Nicholas Negroponte

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters — William Maxwell

One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. — Orrin Woodward

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy. — David Rakoff

Of his new book, Don says: It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space. — Donald Miller

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. — Nicholas Negroponte

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. — Emma Donoghue