I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

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

I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.