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“A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.”

Nicholas Negroponte

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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

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

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The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting…

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I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

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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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But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of…

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Good education has got to be good entertainment.

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

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Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

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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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Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

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Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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