Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

I like most any place if I have Internet access.

I feel like I would have been able to be the creative I am anywhere in America just because I have access to the Internet.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios.

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.

When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

People are trading distance for dollars.

If I could figure out a way to earn a living while traveling for the rest of my life, well, I think that'd be a dream come true.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.

In theoretical physics, one can, in principle, work from anyplace as long as one has a computer and Internet connection. So I do not find any disadvantage of being in Allahabad.