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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
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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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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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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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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
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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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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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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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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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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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I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.
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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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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
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