The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

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

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

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.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

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

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.