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MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

— Nicholas Negroponte

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Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education. We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

One laptop per child: Children are your most precious resource, and they can do a lot of self-learning and peer-to-peer teaching. Bingo. End of story.

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