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Scale will get you strategy.
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.
It bothers me when people spoil the market.
Good education has got to be good entertainment.
Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.
Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.
I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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?
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?'
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
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.
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.
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
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.