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Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

We have to make machines understand what they’re doing, or they won’t be able to come back and say, ‘Why did you do that Picture Quote #1

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living Picture Quote #1

Scale will get you strategy Picture Quote #1

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world’s most precious natural resource Picture Quote #1

You can see the future best through peripheral vision Picture Quote #1

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning Picture Quote #1

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By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self Picture Quote #1

I’m not good at selling laptops. I’m good at selling ideas Picture Quote #1

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning Picture Quote #1

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don’t take no for an answer Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing Picture Quote #1

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you’re going to depend on the community to make software for it Picture Quote #1

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas Picture Quote #1

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries Picture Quote #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 Picture Quote #1

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water Picture Quote #1

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We have to make machines understand what they’re doing, or they won’t be able to come back and say, ‘Why did you do that (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Scale will get you strategy (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Young people, I happen to believe, are the world’s most precious natural resource (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) You can see the future best through peripheral vision (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) I’m not good at selling laptops. I’m good at selling ideas (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don’t take no for an answer (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) 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 (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) 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 (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) 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 (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) It’s hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you’re going to depend on the community to make software for it (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) 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 (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes) Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water (Nicholas Negroponte Quotes)

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