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

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

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

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

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

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

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.