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.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

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

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

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.