By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

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.

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.