Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

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

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.