If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.