Nicholas Negroponte Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Trying, Sometimes, Form

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Technology, Skills

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• I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, Eggs, White

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Research, Computer, User Interface

  "Lifestreams" by Steve G. Steinberg, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Organization, Ideas, People

  "Where do new ideas come from?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

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• Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Business, Real, Moving

  "Taxing Taxes" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. May 01, 1998.

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• The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Wikipedia, Notion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Islands, Law, United States

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• Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Views, Juan

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• Scale will get you strategy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Strategy, Scales

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• The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Car, Cost, Electronics

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Water, Fish Tanks

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Goal, Laptops, Selling

  "Intel Breaks Up with OLPC" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. January 04, 2008.

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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.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Writing, Mean, Kids

  "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

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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.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, Bigs, Competing

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Understanding, Cyberspace, Limits

  "Internet Time: Will the 'beat' go on?". www.cnn.com. February 26, 1999.

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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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  Book, Mean, Paper

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Air, Breathing

  "Negroponte: Internet is way to world peace". www.cnn.com. November 25, 1997.

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• 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.

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  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

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  Memories, Moving, Technology

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Worry, Want, Today

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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

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  Elements, Problem, Bigs

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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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  Girl, Children, Sibling

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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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  Research, Bigs, Term

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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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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  Careers, Income, Needs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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