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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
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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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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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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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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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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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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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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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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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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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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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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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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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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