Cutting Quote by Nicholas Negroponte Download Open image “What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.” — Nicholas Negroponte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cutting Cutting edge Differences Edges Obsolete
"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
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. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
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