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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
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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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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.
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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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While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
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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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To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.
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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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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
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