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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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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Computer Scientist
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New York City
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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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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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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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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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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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