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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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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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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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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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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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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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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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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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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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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
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