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.

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.

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

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?'

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.