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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.

Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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