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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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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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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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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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Scale will get you strategy.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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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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I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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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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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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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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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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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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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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