1. “Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.”
2. “Books are the province of romantics an humanists, not heartless nerds.”
3. “It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.”
4. “Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”
5. “This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.”
6. “The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.”
7. “It bothers me when people spoil the market.”
8. “We all learned how to walk an talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.”
9. “Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.”
10. “Access by kid to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.”
11. “Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.”
12. “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.”
13. “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.”
14. “I think life’ turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.”
15. “Good education has got to be good entertainment.”
16. “Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.”
17. “Its 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.”
18. “Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.”
19. “Scale will get you strategy.”
20. “The notion of collective contribution, like Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.”
21. “Very often kids don’t ask questions in class because they don’t want to be seen asking a question.”
22. “The ability to make big leap of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.”
23. “I’m not good at selling laptops. I’m good at selling ideas.”
24. “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?”
25. “You can see the future best through peripheral vision.”
26. “Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they… can never be without some element of education.”
27. “Computer science department have always considered user interface’ research to be sissy work.”
28. “Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.”
29. “Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.”
30. “Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”
