Every Child In Uruguay Has A Little

Incrementalism Is Innovation's Worst Enemy.

I'd Like To Describe A Sort Of Life 20 Years Ago As Being A Fried Egg. There Was A Yolk And A White And The White Was Maybe Work, And The Yolk Was Life. Today, It's More Of An Omelet. It's More Mixed And It's More Interspersed And I Think That That's A More Interesting State Of Being And For Some People, They'll Say Well I Want The Crisp, Fried Egg Approach To Life.

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.

Companies Cannot Really See Beyond Their Current Customer Base. They Explicitly Or Implicitly Do Things To Protect Their Current Customers. And The Last Person To Want Real Change Is Your Customer. This Is Why Most New Ideas Come From Small Companies That Have Nothing To Lose.

Giving The Kids A Programming Environment Of Any Sort, Whether It's A Tool Like Squeak Or Scratch Or Logo To Write Programs In A Childish Way - And I Mean That In The Most Generous Sense Of The Word, That Is, Playing With And Building Things - Is One Of The Best Ways To Learn.