"Two men were examining the output of the……" — Nicholas Negroponte
"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?"
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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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My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook…
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And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it…
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography:…
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