There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.