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

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

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.

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.