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.

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

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

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.

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?