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.

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?'

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.