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.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

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

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.