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

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

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

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

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

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