Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.