"Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself."

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Nicholas Negroponte

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“We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.”
“The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.”
“For the real winners, there are no finish lines.”
“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”
“Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.”
“The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.”
“I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.”
“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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