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

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

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

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.