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Nicholas Negroponte

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

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Donna Grant

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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Donna Grant

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Donna Grant

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

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Donna Grant

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

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Donna Grant

"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."

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Donna Grant

"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."

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Donna Grant

"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."

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Donna Grant

"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."

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Donna Grant

"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."

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Donna Grant

"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it."

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

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Nicholas Negroponte
"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."

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

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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?'"

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Nicholas Negroponte
"This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries."

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Nicholas Negroponte
"By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another."

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