"Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered,……" — Nicholas Negroponte
"Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people."
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45 Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers.…
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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
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Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of…
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When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not…
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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…
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By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
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If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In…
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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
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We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why…
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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
— Anita Baker
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
— Sarah Brightman
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
— Warren Buffett
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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