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“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”
“Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.”
“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.”