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.

Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one’s studies. Maine’s program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

It might not be long before we have jackets that can recharge cell phones and you can be sure that is a jacket I’m going to wear more often. In an aging society, it would...

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

And what’s really frightening, or interesting, depending on your perspective, is that the change from now will even be faster and bigger than we’re expecting.

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

So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide – digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we...

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

Red Hat’s experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.

People aren’t thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it’s like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

We call the concept ‘standby bits.

One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want...

When we talk about an Internet of things, it’s not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we smart people know where that dumb thing is. It’s about embedding intelligence so things become...

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

It is going to happen, and if it comes out at $138 so what? If it comes out six months late so what? I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now...

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.

If you get those kind of results, I’m going to build the machines. There’s enough passion and enough kids that are able to do things they were not able to do before that justifies it.