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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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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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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 think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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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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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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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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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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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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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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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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Scale will get you strategy.
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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
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