The initial plan is to start with countries that are big and very different to each other, |
the most important thing I've ever done in my life. |
The plan is for the $100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data. |
There are 200,000 paid subscribers in Mexico, |
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. |
This is not teaching as we know it; only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process. |
This is the right move at the right time, |
This selected group of organizations has shown their commitment and leadership in closing the digital divide in emerging countries, focusing on providing access to life-altering technology and information to children across the globe. |
unbelievably silly, because terrorists and drug dealers aren't waiting for FedEx to deliver a disk to Libya or Colombia. |
We call the concept 'standby bits. |
We have been asked directly about this, ... Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years. |
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 really believe we can really make literally hundreds of millions of these machines around the world, |
We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000, |
Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that. |