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.

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

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

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.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.