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The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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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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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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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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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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Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
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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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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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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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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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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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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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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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