Quotes from LeVar Burton

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.