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Well, the one advantage is that you don't have to pick them up. And people don't realize how important that is, not having to pick up your fingers to use them.
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- Nicholas Negroponte Excerpt from TED (February 1, 1984)

It's because you get the best people. You get the people who are doing it because they believe in the mission and they're the best people.

- Nicholas Negroponte Excerpt from TED (December 1, 2007)
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So think of it this way: think of it as inoculating children against ignorance. And think of the laptop as a vaccine.

- Nicholas Negroponte Excerpt from TED (December 1, 2008)
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So when you see that kind of thing, this is not something that you have to test. The days of pilot projects are over, when people say, "Well, we'd like to do three or four thousand in our country to see how it works." Screw you. Go to the back of the line and someone else will do it, and then when you figure out that this works, you can join as well. And this is what we're doing.

- Nicholas Negroponte Excerpt from TED (February 1, 2006)
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It's only when ideas take root that things change. Slowly ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

- Nandan Nilekani Excerpt from TED (February 1, 2009)
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Crucial point here: math is not equal to calculating.

- Conrad Wolfram Excerpt from TED (July 1, 2010)
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