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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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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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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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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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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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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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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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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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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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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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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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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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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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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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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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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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