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

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

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

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.