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

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.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

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

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.