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

Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Computer Scientist
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New York City
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The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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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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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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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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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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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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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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Scale will get you strategy.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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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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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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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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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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