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Nicholas Negroponte Inspirational Quotes (44)

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I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
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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.
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Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
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Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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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.
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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.
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I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.
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