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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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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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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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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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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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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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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 ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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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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Scale will get you strategy.
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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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Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
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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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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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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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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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