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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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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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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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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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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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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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