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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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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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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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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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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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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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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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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'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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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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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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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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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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