Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

I am very much a people person.

I'm not that interested in people.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

We can get carried away with our heads in books, and although there's so much to be learned from that, I think sitting in a cafe and speaking with someone - whatever it is, their mannerisms, their choices, are just as valuable as any class you can go to.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.