Good education has got to be good entertainment.

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

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

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

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.