Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is tha...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had pho...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE It bothers me when people spoil the market.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% ...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countr...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back a...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too comp...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly inclu...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do thi...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same br...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education busine...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundar...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without s...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE When we talk about an Internet of things, it's not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we s...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE A colleague of mine said it made him think twice about kissing his wife goodbye in the morning,
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I am always asked in my travels through the developing world: 'If this is such a good idea, why isn'...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam o...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center,...
JOHN NEGROPONTE I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE [The] former regime elements ... seem to have very good operational secrecy, ... And thus far it's n...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s f...
JOHN NEGROPONTE There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier....
JOHN NEGROPONTE We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The organization's core elements still plot and make preparations for terrorist strikes against the ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's a very, very difficult issue,
JOHN NEGROPONTE They have provided some valuable intelligence information with respect to the war on terror.
JOHN NEGROPONTE These people are being held. And they're bad actors. And as long as this situation continues, this w...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's got a huge amount of ambiguity in it,
JOHN NEGROPONTE Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily ex...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We didn't see any red flags come up during the course of our inquiry.
JOHN NEGROPONTE On the basis of our inquiry we assessed that the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE On the basis of our inquiry we assess that the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World to...
JOHN NEGROPONTE I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of human...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We don't know what to make of it (the passage). It's unclear,
JOHN NEGROPONTE We expect this strategy to guide the policies and plans in the various intelligence community agenci...
JOHN NEGROPONTE concern that the office be created consistent with the law that was passed last year.
JOHN NEGROPONTE I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view th...
JOHN NEGROPONTE This resolution helps pave the way for the increased security in Afghanistan upon which nearly every...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The lifting of sanctions marks a momentous event for the people of Iraq. After more than a decade of...
JOHN NEGROPONTE specific directions for terrorist attacks continue to be issued from terrorist groups based in Syria...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Resolution 1546 defines the key political tasks in which the United Nations shall play a leading and...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Our impression is that the council members have welcomed this resolution, and it enjoys strong suppo...
JOHN NEGROPONTE trying to get to consensus.
JOHN NEGROPONTE We advanced this resolution to assist them and those who are trying to help them in the region.
JOHN NEGROPONTE I'd heard enough. ... I didn't hear anything new and of course don't accept any of the kinds of alle...
JOHN NEGROPONTE No one has really slammed the door shut on our proposals, and it was on that basis that we came to t...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We continue to hope that this issue can be resolved peacefully, and we want to work within the frame...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We've got major challenges in Iraq. It's (an issue) that occupied me when I was up there as ambassad...
JOHN NEGROPONTE If the Security Council fails to act decisively in the event of further Iraqi violations this resolu...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It sounds like it's an interesting development. We'll have to wait and see what further develops on ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The transitional arrangements that come into being will also allow the people of Iraq to benefit fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE In addition, we have contributed over $60 million to more than a dozen different U.N. agencies... as...
JOHN NEGROPONTE If I were to choose one single watchword of this strategy, it's 'integration,' and I think that the ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Certainly, we know where the key installations are. Are there others that we're not aware of at all?...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's conceivable that they are exaggerating their progress, but I don't have any knowledge to confir...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Surely, at some point, it may prove desirable that they be brought to prosecution, to face justice. ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own affairs.
JOHN NEGROPONTE Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and const...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opp...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home s...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
NICHOLAS LEA I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this year...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for ...
NICHOLAS MEYER To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into i...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social inter...
NICHOLAS STOLLER I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, an...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to fin...
NICHOLAS STACEY A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult...
NICHOLAS LORE What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teac...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better,...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
NICHOLAS SPARKS She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordina...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Every great love starts with a great story...
NICHOLAS SPARKS True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
NICHOLAS SPARKS avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused.
NICHOLAS SPARKS her jeans and sleeveless blouse.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume.
Quando usado no jardim, servi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
NICHOLAS SPARKS additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS - You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
NICHOLAS SPARKS These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most peopl...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. P...
NICHOLAS SPARKS And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
NICHOLAS SPARKS If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Aren't you frightened?"
Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Jamie: Please don't pretend like you know me, ok?
Landon: But I do, I do. We've had all the sam...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT m...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
NICHOLAS SPARKS A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can hap...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it w...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a commo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remem...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch...
NICHOLAS SPARKS An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS