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.

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

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

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.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.