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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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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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Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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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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