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1. "Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

2. "I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

3. "Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

4. "My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

5. "The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

6. "We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

7. "Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

8. "If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

9. "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." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

10. "Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

11. "One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

12. "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

13. "Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

14. "Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

15. "Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

16. "Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

17. "Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water." ~ Nicholas Negroponte

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