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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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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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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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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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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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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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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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Scale will get you strategy.
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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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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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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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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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