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.
Nicholas NegroponteEven in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Nicholas NegroponteThis is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
Nicholas NegroponteIf you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?
Nicholas NegroponteMost children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.
Nicholas NegroponteEverybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
Nicholas NegroponteThe best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.
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