The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Nicholas Negroponte
The ability to make big leaps ...
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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
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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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MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
Nicholas Negroponte
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.
Nicholas Negroponte
