Nicholas Negroponte

1943– · American computer scientist (born 1943)

Topics: distributed systems, software design, software engineering, creativity

• The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

  — Nicholas Negroponte

• I think the Net is scaling very well. Because of the way it was designed, I don't think it will come to its knees and crash. I see it as very organic in the way it's capable of living and reproducing itself.

  — Nicholas Negroponte

• You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

  — Nicholas Negroponte

• The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time — you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.

  — Nicholas Negroponte

• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  — Nicholas Negroponte