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.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

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.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

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