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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.

From Nicholas Negroponte

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.

From Nicholas Negroponte

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

From Nicholas Negroponte

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.

From Nicholas Negroponte

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

From Nicholas Negroponte

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

From Nicholas Negroponte

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

From Nicholas Negroponte

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

From Nicholas Negroponte

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.

From Nicholas Negroponte

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?'

From Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte

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