"When you request 100-200 million units, you're able to influence corporate strategy."
-Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child, USA
"Knowledge is more important than aesthetics, more important than policy."
-John Restrepo, Executive Director, Parquesoft, Colombia
"What people want is for the telephone to be answered, quickly."
-Enrique Cañas, General Manager, Banco Uno, El Salvador
[on understanding the needs of financial services customers at the BOP]
"The aspiration for quality does not vary with income."
-Craig Fiebig, General Manager for Emerging Markets, Microsoft, USA
"The cost/benefit ratio is looked at very closely by those who have very little."
-Alejandro Espinosa, Grupo Nueva, Chile
"(Outsourcing to India) took 25 years to get to $20M, now they earn $20M every day and a half."
-Gabriel Rozman, President, Tata Consultancy Services Iberoamerica, Uruguay
"The problem is not information, but political will."
-Nancy Barry, President and CEO, Women's World Banking