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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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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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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
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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 think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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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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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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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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