Nicholas Negroponte

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.