Nicholas Negroponte

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

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.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.