Sugata Mitra Quotes

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Sugata Mitra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 12, 1952

Topics

ChildrenInternetConnectionWall

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

John Sandford

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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Amy Lowell

SnowFireHandsIceYouTouch

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Kanaly

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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Sigmund Freud

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My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.

Mira Nair

FamilyMeSurroundedSenseJust

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

Joshua Cohen

CoffeeWorldBookImpossibleThink

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

Dorothy Hamill

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I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.

Del Shannon

PeopleMeOutSatisfyHitsReally

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

Anne Carson

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Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.

Tinie Tempah

BeautifulPlacesOthersBeenLike

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Noah Wyle

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