MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

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

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

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

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

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