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

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

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

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.