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

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

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.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

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

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.