LeVar Burton

“It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.”

“I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.”

“We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.”

“As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.”

“This wired generation is kind of cool.”

“We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.”

“We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.”

“It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.”

“I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.”

“I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.”

“There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.”

“Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.”

“And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.”

“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”

“I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.”

“I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.”

“It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?”

“I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.”

“The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.”

“Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?”