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.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

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

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

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.

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