Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

Nicholas Negroponte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

DoingYouBackSayWhyUnderstand

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Jim Crace

MorningI AmPageTwoOverEmpty

Any voice where you've got to scream over a battle or whatever, that's always difficult. It's harder than it seems.

John DiMaggio

VoiceBattleYouDifficultOver

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

Andrew Sean Greer

GoodExperienceMemoryThinkYou

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

CommunitySocietyJournalismResults

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

Max McKeown

CatsSheepSayWantIndependentOwn

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

Matthew Desmond

CrisisWorstDecadeNationAlmost

I am not stroppy at all.

Andy Murray

I AmAm

Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

Stephen Fincher

GrowthJobWaitWhyOurShould

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Rory MacLean

CommunicationMeProcessConversation

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

Robert Wyatt

YouthFashionThinkRockIndustry

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

WorkHistoryBlackAheadMoreMonth

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

HistoryBestGovernmentLooking Back

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Nicholas Negroponte