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

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

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.