MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
Nicholas NegroponteGoogle has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
Nicholas NegroponteYou go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.
Nicholas NegroponteThe process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.
Nicholas Negroponte