"When you meet a head of state, and……" — Nicholas Negroponte
"When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you."
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45 Quotes by Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte has 45 quotes on this site.
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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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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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MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope…
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Philanthropy is activism.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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— Jimmy Carter
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— Tommy Chong
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from…
— Michael Shermer
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Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
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