In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

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

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

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.

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

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.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.