It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

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?'

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

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.