American - Businessman | December 1, 1943 -
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte
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The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
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This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
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It bothers me when people spoil the market.
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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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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
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I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
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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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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.
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Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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