MIT is governed by a second, ...

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
 Nicholas Negroponte

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
 Nicholas Negroponte
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
 Nicholas Negroponte
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
 Nicholas Negroponte
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.
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I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
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