"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product."

"I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got."

"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"

"We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise."

"Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men."

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

"I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself."

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."