"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that."

-- Nicholas Negroponte

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Important Quotes

“In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.”

Source : Scott Pelley's speech upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, May 11, 2013.
“Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.”
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
“It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.”

Source : Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.19, Crown Archetype
“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.”

Source : Speech to the Institute of Directors' Annual Conference, February 26, 1985.
“Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.”
“The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.”
“...for hope is always born at the same time as love...”

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