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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
Nicholas Negroponte
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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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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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 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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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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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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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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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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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.
Nicholas Negroponte
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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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.
Nicholas Negroponte
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
Nicholas Negroponte
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
Nicholas Negroponte
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
Nicholas Negroponte
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.
Nicholas Negroponte
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
Nicholas Negroponte
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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