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

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

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.

When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.