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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Computer Scientist
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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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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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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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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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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
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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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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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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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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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Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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