Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Amazing
  • Fashion
  • Revolution

• The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Value
  • Artist

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Progress
  • Human

• The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Govern

• I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Good
  • Party
  • Celebrity

• Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

  

  Nicholas Negroponte
  • People
  • Machines
  • Serve