Nicholas Negroponte Bigs Quotations

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.