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Brief about Nicholas Negroponte: By info that we know Nicholas Negroponte was born at 1943-12-01. And also Nicholas Negroponte is American Businessman.

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When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

Tags: Children, Pretty, State

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Tags: Computers, Computing, Living

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.

Tags: Good, Nature, Pretty

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

Tags: Air, Internet, Kids

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

Tags: Another, Online, Year

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Tags: Computers, Fish, Kids

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

Tags: Big, Education, Problems

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

Tags: Else, Give, Point

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Tags: Good, Ideas, Selling

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

Tags: Bothers, Market, Spoil

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Tags: Computer, Learning, Teaching

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Tags: Enemy, Run, Worst

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Tags: Business, Education, Goal

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Tags: Brings, Laptop, Learning

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Tags: Beginning, Boundaries, Limits

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Tags: Learned, Real, Talk

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?'

Tags: Able, Understand, Why

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.

Tags: Big, Less, Looking

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

Tags: Country, Late, Popular

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.

Tags: Change, Real, Small
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