"It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it."

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Source : "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

Nicholas Negroponte

#Kids Quotes #Community Quotes #Laptops Quotes

“Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.”
“The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.”
“Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”

Source : Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986
“We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.”
“People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.”

Source : Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.16, Soho Press
“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression â€“ by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”
“During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.”

Source : Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.138, Pan Macmillan
“Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.”

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