The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

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.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

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

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

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Good education has got to be good entertainment.