It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.