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

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.