Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

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

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.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

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

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.